The long wait for healing
[caption id="attachment_2939" align="alignleft" width="570"] ‘I was in so much pain and the nurses were rude to me. There are also student nurses there who have no experience, they don’t know…
[caption id="attachment_2939" align="alignleft" width="570"] ‘I was in so much pain and the nurses were rude to me. There are also student nurses there who have no experience, they don’t know…
Thank goodness for cellphones – they can double as torches. And it’s by torchlight that staff at the rundown Batho Clinic, outside of Bloemfontein, have been forced to work since…
It’s 7.30am on a Tuesday and Tshepo Pita and Lehlohonolo Mafabatho are watching the clock. The minutes count because they’re on a tight schedule. Within an hour they want the…
Metallic cut-outs of roses line the main road that leads into Bloemfontein. This is the city of roses, but nothing smells sweet about its healthcare system. People call hospitals ‘mortuaries’…
The 2014 South African HIV Clinicians Society conference was plastered with a guerrilla sticker campaign: ‘Saving the NHLS = saving lives’. The National Health Laboratory Service – a national asset…
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has announced plans to ‘fix’ the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) – one of the country’s most important health assets, which is on the verge…
2001 The NHLS is established by an Act of Parliament, amalgamating the South African Institute for Medical Research, National Institute for Virology and National Centre for Occupational Health, and university…
AIDS is not over. Over six million people in South Africa are HIV-positive.Our country has the world’s largest AIDS treatment programme withover 2 .4 million people on antiretroviral therapy. At…