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2 months ago | 
health-e.org.za | Ina Skosana |Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa
The unprecedented postponement of the 2024/25 budget speech on Wednesday shocked South Africans, but it has left hope that the revised plan, due to be tabled on 12 March, will be more aligned with economic growth, and not so heavily focused on increasing taxes.
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2 months ago | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Sandile Livingstone Mbili
It’s barely a month into the school year and several incidents of school bullying have already been reported across the country. Two weeks back, a 14-year-old boy in Cape Town shared how his schoolmates dipped his head into a dirty toilet and smeared human faeces on his face and uniform. In the same week, a mother shared on social media about her daughter’s bullying ordeal at a Centurion school in Gauteng.
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2 months ago | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Montsho Matlala
The Limpopo health department has come under fire for continuing to pay a hefty monthly rental for a rundown building in Polokwane that houses its provincial medicine depot. Despite the building’s deteriorating condition, the department continues to pay R150,000 monthly to the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA), without a clear long-term plan to address the state of the building.
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2 months ago | 
health-e.org.za | Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Montsho Matlala |Yoliswa Sobuwa
ActionSA has called for the resignation of KwaZulu Natal (KZN) Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane, over her “dishonesty” about medicine shortages in the province. Earlier this week the department spokesperson, Ntokozo Maphisa, denied reports of a shortage of essential medication in public hospitals and clinics. This came after ActionSA wrote a letter urging Simelane to visit various healthcare facilities to assess the situation. “We categorically refute these claims.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Molefi Sompane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa
I am a professional nurse working at Zithulele Hospital in Mqanduli, Eastern Cape. I was excited when I started working here ten years ago as the hospital was one of the best rural hospitals, running like a well-oiled machine. However, things changed in September 2021 with the appointment of Nolubabalo Fatyela, the hospital CEO. The 150-bed hospital serves a population of about 130 000 every month. We work under difficult circumstances.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Precious Mashiane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili
In Gauteng’s Ekurhuleni District, the number of teenage girls between the ages of 10 and 19 who gave birth in public health facilities in the 2022/2023 period is 6 670, the highest in the country. It’s an increase from 5 928 births the year before. Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape have both seen a rise in teenage births since the 2018/2019 financial year.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Precious Mashiane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa
Henry Chung, University of Essex; Chris McManus, University of Essex, and Sally Waterworth, University of Essex Weight loss is a complicated process. There are so many factors involved including your diet, how much sleep you get each night and the kind of exercise you do. Our recent study shows that your specific genetic profile may also have a dominant effect on how well you lose weight through exercise. This might explain why two people who do an identical workout will see very different results.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Precious Mashiane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili
A young scientist from Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape is determined to fight hospital-acquired infections by introducing eco-friendly solutions to purify the air in healthcare facilities. While people typically go to hospitals to get better, sometimes being in a health facility exposes them to hospital-acquired infections, which pose significant risks to vulnerable patients.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa |Precious Mashiane
Kuhlekonke Phenyane from Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal was born with lamellar ichthyosis (LI), a rare skin condition that causes the build-up of scales all over the body. The nine-year-old has never attended school because her parents were scared that their daughter would be bullied. Because of her condition, she suffers constant itching and flaking skin. “My daughter is struggling, she cannot be around other people.
