A healthcare crisis emerges, a report is published, the Eastern Cape Department of Health promises to act. This cycle repeats over and over again without much really being fixed, writes Kathryn Cleary.
In the rural Eastern Cape a forest and a river can lie between you and the nearest clinic. As one local puts it, “Many people come here and see beauty, we just see suffering”.
The public hearings into government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill had a rocky start in Mpumalanga recently as civil society organisations and some opposition parties slammed the process.
This week researchers, policymakers and activists gathered in Hyderabad, India for the world’s leading TB conference. We picked six of the week’s most important stories.
Irregular expenditure by the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in the 2018/19 financial year totalled almost R2,7 billion – the biggest chunk of the R3,03 billion the National Department of Health and all its entities incurred the past financial year.
The latest version of the NHI Bill proposes limited access to health care services for population groups such as asylum seekers and undocumented migrants with serious implications for universal health coverage.
Regulations relating to the accreditation of postgraduate qualifications for nursing and the designated nursing colleges that will offer the new qualification, was gazetted last week while questions remain about the overall readiness of these colleges.
The Eastern Cape Department of Health has announced that over R236 million has been allocated towards improving mental health facilities across the province for the next 3 years.
Yogan Pillay of the Department of Health responds to recent articles in Spotlight and Business day relating to mental health services in South Africa.
With one puzzling exception, South Africa’s new tender prices for tuberculosis medicines appear to compare well with the lowest international prices.
A total of 63 000 people died of tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa in 2018, according to new figures released by the World Health Organization on Thursday.
Information recently presented in parliament sheds light on how many clinic health committees there are in each province and how many members these committees have.