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Access to sufficient colostomy bags still hit-and-miss at Gauteng hospitals

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Gauteng, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, Latest, Provinces

Six months after Spotlight first reported on the plight of stoma patients experiencing shortages of colostomy and urostomy bags at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Gauteng, users are still reporting shortages at Baragwanath and other hospitals in the province. Thabo Molelekwa reports.

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Access to sufficient colostomy bags still hit-and-miss at Gauteng hospitals

Opinion: Living with a stoma in SA – we deserve better

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, Latest

Our public health system is creating a new type of disability – ostomates who, with access to the necessary care and medical consumables could live long and fulfilled lives, but who every day are subjected to the indignities of inadequate care, writes colorectal cancer survivor and ostomate, Faizel Jacobs.

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Opinion: Living with a stoma in SA – we deserve better

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