The Eastern Cape health department has been brought to its knees by a crippling stand-off between senior officials and unions, whose members are accused of “doing what they like” despite rising numbers of Covid-19 cases in the province.…
A number of doctors who were working for the Eastern Cape health department are idling at home as the department has no money to retain them. Session doctors who spoke to DispatchLIVE this week said the situation had put enormous pressure…
Doctors and nurses are among 28 health workers who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Gauteng‚ the provincial health department said on Thursday. “All cases are mild and did not require hospitalisation‚ except for one person who was…
The KwaZulu-Natal health department expanded its registrar programme in 2019 from 314 to 414, but aimed to fill the 100 new posts with only black candidates. Some called this discriminatory, unconstitutional and racist, but the provincial…
A four-year-old girl who was born with only one fingerless hand has had a toe transformed into a finger in the first operation of its kind in South Africa. The 11-hour operation at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town was performed…
