Despite middle-class misgivings, South Africa’s universal healthcare plan puts us well ahead of the Asian powerhouse.
Barack Obama’s foes have muscled a symbolic Bill calling for the repeal of his overhaul of US healthcare to passage in the House of Representatives.
Surgery without anaesthetics and epidemics worsened by malnutrition show the desperate state of North Korea’s healthcare system, Amnesty says.
Barack Obama is leading his Democratic allies in a campaign to win over wavering lawmakers ahead of a Sunday vote on his historic healthcare overhaul.
Accusations of negligence reignite anger still harboured by KwaZulu-Natal’s overstretched medical staff.
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/ 25 February 2010
President Barack Obama launches a last-ditch bid to salvage his stalled healthcare overhaul on Thursday at a televised summit.
President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled his own plan to overhaul the US healthcare system by providing cover for 31-million uninsured people.
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/ 7 December 2009
South Africa’s large immigrant population is routinely and illegally denied healthcare by clinics and hospitals, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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/ 9 November 2009
House of Representatives passes Bill by a slim margin that would increase health insurance to 96% of Americans.
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/ 21 October 2009
SA’s public hospitals are in a bleak state with failing equipment and dwindling numbers of doctors, Parliament heard on Wednesday.
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/ 10 September 2009
Barack Obama tried to put his presidency back on course on Wednesday night with a rare fighting speech to Congress on his healthcare plan.
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/ 8 September 2009
A thousand demonstrators gathered at North Carolina’s capitol to support United States President Barack Obama’s proposals for universal healthcare.
Chris McGreal follows in the path of the Joads, John Steinbeck’s fictional family in the Grapes of Wrath who fled Oklahoma for California.
Over 60 000 children, aged between a month and five years, die in South Africa each year, according to a report released at a health summit.
The time is ripe for a public debate on the rights and responsibilities of people who turn to the state for medical care, DA leader Helen Zille says.
As the storm over Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms rages, a surge in rightwing extremism is being fanned by opponents.
The Free State health department will spend most of its R5,1-billion budget on salaries, the provincial minister for health said on Wednesday.
Battling slumping poll numbers, Barack Obama holds a primetime news conference on Wednesday, in a bid to counter growing criticism of his policies.
The principles of a national health insurance (NHI) are simple — access to healthcare for all and everyone pitching in to pay for everyone.
Angola’s health minister admitted on Monday the country’s health service was not working properly.
Government is responsible for the failures in SA’s public healthcare system, said the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Thursday.
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/ 12 February 2009
Policy intervention supported in the national budget will focus both on health and on more aggressively combating the causes of ill health.
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/ 13 January 2009
Mugabe should be charged with crimes against humanity over rights abuses and the collapse of Zimbabwe’s health system, US physicians said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
Non-emergency operations in Free State public hospitals are being held over for two months to save money, the Department of Health said on Tuesday.
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/ 4 November 2008
The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged Health Minister Barbara Hogan to convene a meeting on the public healthcare budget crisis.
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/ 21 October 2008
The financial storm has arrived, said Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Tuesday in presenting his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
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/ 17 October 2008
In a month our health regime has moved from folly and despair to hope and commitment. With a mandate for change from health minister Barbara Hogan.
There is no cause for panic over an outbreak of suspected haemorrhagic fever in Gauteng that has claimed three lives, says the government.
When her baby turned blue, Nivetha Biju rushed the child to the emergency room of an Indian hospital and watched as the baby lost consciousness.
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/ 17 September 2008
The Ugandan minister for primary healthcare tells Madeleine Bunting of his ambitions for the country.
The African National Congress (ANC) on Friday recommitted itself to free basic education and universal access to quality healthcare.
No national health insurance until the health minister gets the basics of healthcare delivery in public hospitals and clinics right, says the DA.