Western Cape health director general Craig Househam is widely tipped to take over the running of the National Department of Health.
Traditional leaders are resisting plans to introduce medical circumcision. Mia Malan reports.
Professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of SA’s foremost HIV researchers, were recently the health department’s greatest enemies.
Nehawu: The South African Medical Association should get a better grip on OSD negotiations and keep its affiliate members.
”This year we’ve been running out of simple things, such as Panado,” says one doctor.
The toyi-toyiing ”helps me to get rid of my frustrations at the hospital”, says one doctor.
Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Mia Malan.
Angry medical practitioners staged daily lunch-hour pickets outside hospitals across the country last week.
Medical practitioners warn that they could resume strike action if government does not respond to their demands.
As swine flu threatens South Africa, experts say the country does not have enough of the medicines necessary to contain an epidemic.