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Public Healthcare

Budget 2025: Jobs for only 800 of 1 800 unemployed doctors
Health
/ 17 March 2025

Budget 2025: Jobs for only 800 of 1 800 unemployed doctors

This is despite vacancy rates of 5% to 22% in government clinics and hospitals

By Bhekisisa Team
Is tax alone enough to pay for the National Health Insurance?
Health
/ 3 March 2025

Is tax alone enough to pay for the National Health Insurance?

The NHI Act says funding healthcare for all should come from tax but economic growth is in a vice and many people are without jobs

By Linda Pretorius and Jacques Verryn
2022 census discriminates against LGBTQIA+ community
National
/ 18 February 2022

2022 census discriminates against LGBTQIA+ community

LGBTQIA+ organisations have accused Stats SA of being discriminatory for excluding transgender, non-binary and intersex categories in a question relating to sex

By Cassandra Roxburgh
Time for Africa to take control of its own health
Health
/ 12 January 2022

Time for Africa to take control of its own health

Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya among 27 countries yet to sign the treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.

By Githinji Gitahi
Pandemics: A social justice issue
Article
/ 25 March 2020

Pandemics: A social justice issue

Framing coronavirus as a security threat is not the only possible approach

By Ayesha Jacub
Editorial: Something beautiful in the disaster
Article
/ 19 March 2020

Editorial: Something beautiful in the disaster

Before us is an opportunity to make sure we come together to ensure the government fixes what urgently needs to be mended.

By Editorial
Curing a sick system: Doctors and nurses must speak out for patients and themselves
Article
/ 1 August 2016

Curing a sick system: Doctors and nurses must speak out for patients and themselves

Medicine shouldn’t be the only thing on the books at our medical schools. Here are some tips for healthcare workers to handle abuse.

By Staff Reporter
SA doctors demand shorter hours, saying their 30-hour shifts put patients’ lives at risk
Article
/ 30 June 2016

SA doctors demand shorter hours, saying their 30-hour shifts put patients’ lives at risk

The health department and the Health Professions Council of South Africa must act to protect the medics and patients.

By Staff Reporter
​Government disputes drug stock-out survey: ‘Far fewer clinics run out of medicine’
Article
/ 24 June 2016

​Government disputes drug stock-out survey: ‘Far fewer clinics run out of medicine’

The report describes medication shortages as "a serious threat to the public healthcare system". But the government says the figures are inaccurate.

By Mia Malan
Cervical cancer’s deadly contradiction
Article
/ 15 September 2015

Cervical cancer’s deadly contradiction

Despite cervical cancer being the most preventable form of cancer, it is afflicting more South African women than any other kind.

By Mia Malan
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Article
/ 28 March 2014

Publicly waiting for x-rays, privately abandoning all hope

In the state sector, not everyone is equal. Some of us have to pay an arm, a leg and a full working day.

By Ina Skosana
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Article
/ 24 January 2014

Private sector lags in HIV testing

Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.

By Amy Green
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Article
/ 6 September 2013

Motsoaledi: Why I use government hospitals

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.

By Mia Malan
Private healthcare could be cheaper
Article
/ 11 April 2012

Private healthcare could be cheaper

With medical schemes going insolvent, Bonitas has lasted for 30 years and is still going strong, growing into a R6.1-billion entity.

By Sponsored Feature
NHI unlikely to affect private care
Article
/ 30 September 2011

NHI unlikely to affect private care

The proposed NHI scheme will not have an impact on the demand for private health cover if the quality of public healthcare remains dire.

By Mia Malan
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Article
/ 8 June 2011

Parliament calls for tighter security at hospitals

Security around hospitals must be tightened, Parliament has insisted, in the wake of the murder of a doctor by a patient at a hospital in Mpumalanga.

By Staff Reporter
When public healthcare trumps private
Article
/ 3 June 2011

When public healthcare trumps private

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.

By Mia Malan

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