Nurses and doctors are ‘forced’ to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.
The situation in the Eastern Cape health department is a "full-blown catastrophe", writes Trudy Thomas.
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/ 9 September 2013
Health editor Mia Malan talks about Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to use public hospitals and the NHI.
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/ 6 September 2013
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.
Conditions at the Postmasburg Hospital shocked public protector Thuli Madonsela so much that she described it as one of the worst she has seen.
A man has taken two specialists to task for a "misdiagnosis" that nearly cost him his foot
Its health system is comparable to the best in the world, achieved at a fraction of the cost of others.
Thuli Madonsela has asked health officials investigate allegations of racism and ill-treatment of patients at two Western cape health facilities.
But tariffs are also determined by medical inflation, including the cost of service providers.
Madiba’s prison past may have played a role in his recurrent lung infections.
Zimbabwe’s hospitals are being forced to carry out fundraising activities to keep afloat owing to low budget disbursements from the finance ministry.
Former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a Pretoria hospital for "medical attention", the presidency has said.
Rural hospitals are struggling across South Africa – that they function at all is too often not thanks to the state, but the work of Good Samaritans.
The M&G visited five public hospitals in the province and was shocked by the situation, which seems to have deteriorated despite state intervention.
The people of Ekurhuleni will soon be able to access the services of the new Natalspruit Hospital, which will cost about R1-billion.
Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi responds to Garth Zietsman’s article on his address at the National Editors’ Forum in Cape Town.
There will be no private medical schemes in a decade or so, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told a National Editors’ Forum gathering in Cape Town recently.
The Gauteng health department has approved the hiring of specialists to fill vacant posts in the province’s hospitals, an official said on Monday.
South Africa will spend billions of rands to improve healthcare by renovating dilapidated hospitals, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday.
Medics in Mogadishu’s hospitals are being overwhelmed by casualties from the fighting in Somalia, the WHO said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 November 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told hospital chief executives and managers on Thursday to shape up or they will be removed.
”This year we’ve been running out of simple things, such as Panado,” says one doctor.
The World Health Organisation called on governments on Tuesday to make their hospitals disaster-proof.
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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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/ 6 December 2008
Perhaps nothing is as disturbing a symbol of the collapse of governance in Zimbabwe as the ghostly corridors of the country’s biggest hospital.
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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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/ 18 November 2008
Police were deployed in Harare on Tuesday to prevent doctors and nurses from marching in protest at the state of Zimbabwe’s collapsing health system.
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/ 29 September 2008
Three Gauteng hospitals were renamed on Monday to honour individuals who made a significant contribution to the country’s development.
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/ 22 September 2008
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Monday expressed concern about the poor safety standards in some of the country’s public hospitals.
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/ 4 September 2008
Tuberculosis patients at two Eastern Cape hospitals started eating again on Thursday after going on a hunger strike.
Vienna’s hospitals said on Tuesday they were banning popular Crocs plastic clogs, often worn by nursing staff.
A woman gave birth while stuck in a lift at Johannesburg’s Coronation Hospital on Sunday night, the Gauteng health department confirmed.