Cervical cancer claimed Nkhanyeleni Vele’s life this past weekend, but with a higher number of cancer specialists on duty, her death could have been avoided

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.

It’s been a bumper year for trouble for the country’s healthcare system and it’s only June. Here’s everything you might have missed.

Everyone knows about KZN’s cancer crisis but no one is talking about the other provinces that operate on just one radiation oncologist — or less.

Meanwhile, a lone specialist in the North West caters for 3.7-million people as four provinces are forced to send patients to Gauteng.

State cancer patients have nowhere to turn, even if their cancer is treatable.