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‘I’m really actually quite amazed that I managed to navigate that kind of playing the game but not playing the game for as long as I did,’ — Caitlyn Collins, self-proclaimed midwife. (Getty)
CAITLYN COLLINS

The ‘radical birth keeper’ involved in twin baby deaths

Negligence of ‘birth keeper’ could have caused death of twins, who were stillborn.

  • Eunice Masson
11 min read
Emergency: Nurse Salome Nkoana at Tembisa Hospital . The increased demand in Gauteng for oncology services has led to the establishment of treatment centres in the Chris Hani Baragwanath and Dr George Mukhari academic hospitals. (Guillem Sartorio/AFP)
ASHLEIGH TRICHARDT

Specialists, nurses quit country’s ailing public health system

South Africa’s nurses are moving to the private sector or being recruited to high-income countries that are affected by the global shortage of healthcare professionals

  • Marcia Zali
11 min read
(Graphic:Francois Smit)
CHARLOTTE MAXEKE JOHANNESBURG ACADEMIC HOSPITAL

Admissions soar as second wave tightens its hold

The number of admissions drastically increased in the first two weeks of January, showing the highest numbers since the pandemic reached SA across Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the…

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
  • M&G Data Desk
7 min read
Workers demand that they be made permanent employees of provincial health departments — with higher salaries, as well as medical aid and pension benefits — instead of being outsourced to nonprofits organisations that pay them stipend.
BOB MASH

Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers

In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned…

  • Joan Van Dyk
19 min read