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An artist’s march from Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital to the Union Buildings has drawn attention to the perilous state of public health in South Africa.
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Nursing College has been closed indefinitely because of student protests, the Gauteng department of health said.
The Chris Hani Baragwanath, Charlotte Maxeke and Helen Joseph hospitals have banned night visits to patients as hospital staff fear for their safety.
A man who allegedly stabbed an intern and patients at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto at the weekend suffered from a mental disorder.
Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital is to receive a R150-million upgrade that will improve services — and halve the number of beds available.
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has contested the findings of a <i>Mail & Guardian</i> investigation into the state of its mortuary.
A mortuary administrator at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has been dismissed after a <em>Mail & Guardian</em> investigation.
Bodies are piling up in the mortuary at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital owing to a backlog in paupers’ burials.
A backlog in paupers’ burials has left bodies piling up at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital mortuary, with some left untended for months.
Furious over being sidelined at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, health worker unions are demanding action against the Soweto hospital’s management.
TB and HIV-infected patients who can’t pay for high-end medical insurance but can afford GP visits opt for state care, which offers better treatment.
Health Minister Aaron Motshoaledi should hire efficient managers to avoid a repeat of some Gauteng doctors not being paid, Sama said on Wednesday.
Power supply to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital was restored late on Wednesday night after the hospital had been without electricity for two days.
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday praised the management of the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto.
The death of a 16-year-old boy from suspected meningitis at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital was ”inexcusable”, the DA said on Thursday.
From bread to blood, Gauteng’s hospitals have been cut off from crucial supplies. Adriaan Basson, Ilham Rawoot and Karabo Keepile report.
The Gauteng health department faced “some admin challenges” but that did not affect food supply to state hospitals, an official said on Thursday.
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/ 18 February 2009
Gauteng needs at least R5-billion to turn around its health system, a local government minister said on Wednesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
Too few doctors are available to treat all the patients in some departments of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 30 October 2007
Conjoined twin Mpho Mathibela was glad to meet former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Mpho is the surviving twin of the famous Mathibela conjoined twins, Mpho and Mphonyana. They hit headlines when they were born joined at the head at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December 7 1986.
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/ 16 October 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang plans to speak out about media allegations that she is an alcoholic and a kleptomaniac. ”When the time comes this minister will speak out,” Tshabalala-Msimang said at a press conference at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on Tuesday.
Telephone bills and furniture were prioritised over hospital equipment at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, the national and provincial health departments said on Thursday. In a joint statement, the departments cited ”deficiencies on the management side” as the reason the hospital did not have required equipment.
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/ 23 September 2007
The supervisor of a major HIV vaccine trial in South Africa voiced ”huge disappointment” on Saturday after testing was halted in the wake of poor results from sister trials in Australia and the United States. US pharmaceutical giant Merck announced on Friday that it had halted the trials of its V520 vaccine.
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/ 22 September 2007
A major HIV vaccine trial in South Africa was brought to a halt on Friday after interim results from a sister trial in the United States and Australia suggested it failed to prevent HIV infection. The news came as a major blow to Aids researchers as the vaccine had been billed as the world’s most promising Aids-vaccine candidate.
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/ 12 September 2007
The recent water shortage at Gauteng’s Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is over after repairs were made to a burst water pipe. Some sections, including the entire theatre block, at the large Soweto hospital had been without water since last week Wednesday.
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/ 11 September 2007
Sections of Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg have been without water for nearly a week, media reports said on Tuesday. This has resulted in theatres being closed, several toilets out of order and, according to one specialist surgeon, the hygiene of patients being compromised.