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‘Fake’ Eastern Cape doctors dispensed medicine, wrote sick notes for a fee

NONKULULEKO NJILO Two bogus doctors — who dispensed medication for sick patients, mostly pensioners, without the necessary qualifications and licenses since 2019 — appeared in the Butterworth magistrate’s court on Monday. Josiah Kizit,…

A worker wearing a protective suit counts masks at Naton Medical Group, a company which makes medical equipment in Beijing, China.Picture: AFP/WANG ZHAO

SA secures vital stocks of protective gear for health workers

By LINDA ENSOR The protection of SA’s front-line doctors, nurses and community healthcare workers has received a boost with the arrival of a major order of medical protective gear. Being in close contact with Covid-19 patients, the…

Set for new medical frontline

By Siya Tsewu From the narrow streets of bicycle-riding Amsterdam to the wide and worn pothole-riddled roads of Flagstaff, two Dutch doctors have chosen to settle where even few locals would want to. Doctors Stephan Bontekoe and Quirine…

Always finish your antibiotics course? Not necessarily, say experts

British disease experts on Thursday suggested doing away with the “incorrect” advice to always finish a course of antibiotics, saying the approach was fueling the spread of drug resistance. Rather than stopping antibiotics too early, the…

Foreign doctors boost for SA rural areas

South African doctors do not want to work in rural areas and a non-profit organisation is meeting the needs of the department of health by recruiting foreign doctors to work in the deepest parts of the country. Africa Health Placements…