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/ 16 October 2006
The transformation of Africa’s biggest hospital is being closely watched by trade unions and the Gauteng departments of health and public service and administration to see whether it could be a model for change countrywide. Empowering hospital CEO Arthur Manning and clinicians to take control of the operation of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is at the heart of the project
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/ 26 September 2006
Natalspruit Hospital’s wards used to resemble a battlefield as health workers treated those wounded in political battles on the East Rand in the 1980s. Now an overwhelming number of Aids patients have quietly replaced those with gunshot and stab wounds, and there are signs that the quality of care is deteriorating as healthcare workers battle to cope.
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/ 25 September 2006
The impact of HIV/Aids on Rustenburg Provincial Hospital has been enormous. Well over half of all patients display the symptoms of Aids and two-thirds of those tested for the virus last year were HIV-positive. Tuberculosis and pneumonia, both closely associated with HIV, are the most common illnesses. Situated in the heart of North West mining territory, the 352bed hospital is almost always full to capacity,
Little more than half of all tuberculosis (TB) patients are cured in South Africa, multi-drug resistant TB is on the rise and the government seems unable to address the disease. Yet there is some hope in the field of drug development, with renewed attention being paid to developing better medicines.