Joe Phaahla said no one needing emergency care should be turned away from health facilities, as had happened during the strike
Gauteng Health officials say they haven’t seen the police forensic report yet
If the government is unwilling to ensure our patients’ basic constitutional right to access healthcare, it is time to investigate a private-public partnership to repair our facility
Surpassing previous Covid-19 waves the third is sure to hit harder, yet there is little evidence of a move toward tighter regulations.
While officials remain entangled in bureaucratic knots, clinicians warn that the continued closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital risks a ‘humanitarian disaster’
The defence branch will assist with mass testing, screening and contact tracing
When one of the country’s biggest public cancer treatment centres fell victim to fire and left more than a thousand patients waiting for treatment, an uncomfortable truth rose from the ashes.
Pharmacists at one of the major public hospitals in Gauteng say they only received sufficient protective gear after several of their colleagues contracted Covid-19.
A new centre offers hope to families needing support for children with special needs
Many hospital workers who participated in the protest say they do not earn a liveable wage
Department officials have characterised the situation at the hospital as being ‘out of control’ and say police have been called to the scene
Hospital workers may down tools on Wednesday after not receiving proper compensation for working extra hours
The country can’t produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.
The newly-appointed Gauteng health MEC confirmed that five people were injured when a section of the hospital’s roof collapsed.
Emergency services say three more people may still be buried in the rubble.
Claims of corpses being sold at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg are being investigated, says the Gauteng health department.
Nurses and doctors are ‘forced’ to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.
There is no crisis at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, the Gauteng health department has said.
The Gauteng government has downplayed a backlog in paupers’ burials, amid concerns over mortuary management at Charlotte Maxeke hospital.
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/ 7 November 2011
Corpses awaiting indigent burials are piling up at Charlotte Maxeke hospital, while employees complain of unsanitary working conditions in the morgue.
Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has decided to investigate allegations of negligence following six baby deaths at a Johannesburg hospital.
Gauteng health authorities have washed their hands of six premature babies dying of gastro, saying there had been "no specific acts of negligence".