Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe has been discharged from hospital, according to cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams. The minister tested positive for Covid-19 on 14 July 2020 and went into self-quarantine. On 20…
Life Healthcare is investigating how a corpse was allegedly removed from St Dominic’s Hospital in East London and taken to a funeral parlour without the dead man’s family knowing. The Malgas family, of Highgate in the city, is also…
Frontier Hospital staff in Komani (Queenstown) fear for their lives and are demanding that the hospital be closed to the public after 56 employees, including doctors, tested positive for Covid-19. The staff members from a number of…
Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Robert Mugabe remains hospitalised in Singapore where he has been receiving medical care for four months, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday. Mnangagwa said in a statement that the 95-year-old…
Public hospitals have become a death-trap for the poor‚ says Refiloe Nt’sekhe of the Democratic Alliance. The party has produced this checklist of the top eight problems that it says require urgent intervention‚ following inspection…
Three of the seven state mental health facilities housing 1280 patients in the Eastern Cape do not have permanent psychiatrists. Eastern Cape health MEC Helen Sauls-August provided details about psychiatrists in a written reply to…
By Nico Gous When *Henno‚ 3‚ arrived at a donor-funded children’s home in Pretoria in February this year‚ his family thought he was autistic. He did not speak and had trouble hearing‚ but his future has been transformed with a procedure…
AmaXhosa King Mpendulo Zwelonke Sigcawu has adopted the Centane-based Thafalofefe Hospital and partnered with the private sector in assisting in its renovations. The king and his council has since established a developmental vehicle…
Frere CEO recognised for hard work DR ROLENE Wagner is a winner of the annual BWA national Business Woman of the Year Awards, held recently in Johannesburg. The chief executive officer of Frere Hospital won the women in government…
