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Suffering: Iman al-Masri, a displaced Palestinian, gave birth to quadruplets in a shelter at a school in the Gaza Strip on 25 December. Photo: Majdi Fathi/Getty Images

The vulnerable experience of childbirth during war

When Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, I was nine months pregnant … what if I had been there?

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA – NOVEMBER 13: Palestinians, who were displaced from their homes due to Israeli attacks, take shelter at Nasser Hospital to protect themselves from Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 13, 2023. (Photo by Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel’s war on hospitals

Health facilities are on the front line of the pitiless siege of Gaza

Disrupted: The protest by civil servants at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital resulted in health care being ‘chaotic’ . Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images

Several hospitals hit hard by public sector strike

Some hospitals were disrupted by protesters but most facilities had few to no disturbances

Labour: A pregnant woman at the Harare home of midwife Angeless Kanzara. Zimbabwe’s health system has been affected by the economic crisis. Photo: Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images

Zimbabwe hospital workers plot stillbirth burials

The policy is to cremate deceased infants but Bulawayo Hospital’s incinerators are not working

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Could rural students solve South Africa’s doctor dilemma?

South Africa is training more doctors than ever but there isn’t enough money to employ them, leaving about 14% of hospital posts for doctors vacant and 20% at clinics in 2021

The Gauteng health department has no plan

There is a chronic shortage of staff at Baragwanath training hospital and patient care is declining, yet the provincial government is letting hundreds of temporary Covid workers go

Tuberculosis: South Africa’s forgotten killer

Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover

Senior clinicians have warned of a healthcare crisis if Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital remains closed. (BigFive Images/ Gallo)

Gauteng patients are victims of a sick system

The blame for the fire at Charlotte Maxeke hospital and the delays in refurbishing and reopening its damaged sections has been placed squarely at the feet of the provincial…

Nurses treat patients infected with Covid-19 at ward number 20 of the Tembisa Hospital in Tembisa, on March 2, 2021. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP) (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid-19 hospital admissions on the rise in Gauteng as fourth wave looms

Most of the admissions are of unvaccinated and younger people, but there are fears of a spread to older people

Although grateful for the recognition, Nsibirwa Semu says his real aim is for his actions to go beyond Covid-19 and inspire people to remember that any act of goodwill, no matter how small, can help to make things better.

The Ugandan good Samaritan sanitising hospitals and police stations

Compelled to make a difference during the Covid-19 pandemic, an IT consultant is now helping to keep essential services workers healthy