In-depth, public interest health journalism.

Menu
Spotlight
  • Sections
    • Latest News
    • HIV/AIDS
    • TB
    • Editorial
    • Comment
    • NHI
    • Healthcare system
    • Access to Medicines
    • Newsletters
  • Provinces
    • Eastern Cape
    • Free State
    • Gauteng
    • KwaZulu-Natal
    • Limpopo
    • Mpumalanga
    • North West
    • Northern Cape
    • Western Cape
  • Special Projects
    • #InTheSpotlight
    • #InsideTheBox
    • #Vote4Health
    • Health4Sale
  • Resources
    • Data
    • Video
    • Podcasts
    • Previous print editions
  • About Us
    • What is Spotlight?
    • Contact
Home Blog SASA

Tag: SASA

Back To Blog

Patients paid the price as colostomy bags ran out at Gauteng hospital

Posted in: Gauteng, Healthcare system, Latest, Provinces

From around March to June this year, there was a shortage of colostomy bags at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. This meant that public sector patients were, at times, sent home with too few or the wrong bags. Thabo Molelekwa reports.

Read More

Patients paid the price as colostomy bags ran out at Gauteng hospital

Sign-up below to receive the Spotlight newsletter

Spotlight

A print and online publication monitoring South Africa's response to TB and HIV, the state of our health systems and the people that use it and keep it going.

Categories

  • Editorial
  • HIV
  • TB
  • Covid-19
  • Health System
  • NHI
  • Data
  • Access to Medicines

Pages

  • About Us
  • Resources
  • Editions
  • Special Investigations
  • Podcasts

Contact Us

Editors@SpotlightNSP.co.za

© 2025 Spotlight All Rights Reserved

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • BSKY