Angry Station Hill Clinic patients – especially the elderly – have had enough of ongoing staff shortages and deteriorating infrastructure that are impacting on service delivery at the facility. Concerned members of the community have been…
Today we salute a special group of Coastal Kindness volunteers – our team of Medical First Responders. We acknowledge their contribution to making Kenton and its surrounds a safer place for all of us. Knowing that they’re always on call…
This is the first in a series on eye care leading up to World Sight Day on 13 October 2022. Cataracts The lens in your eye must be clear in order to receive a sharply focused image. If it’s cloudy or opaque due to the gradual formation of…
Parliament’s portfolio committee on health has called for “vigorous engagements and discussion” to address the issue of police officers entering hospitals with loaded firearms. This comes after the committee visited the New Somerset…
The Covid-19 lockdown has negatively affected South Africa’s medical circumcision programme and far fewer men have been circumcised in the past year than in previous years, health NGO Right to Care reported. The NGO said the consequences…
Get ready to relax and gain new skills and insights into how to handle life post-pandemic at the chilled Bathurst Wellness Weekend over the long weekend from March 20 to 22. The packed programme of talks, workshops, classes and therapies…
Report by Leigh Callipolitis – The PR SPACE March 2 is World Obesity Day Obesity is a disaster requiring urgent intervention in South Africa2. Alarmingly 800 million people around the world are affected by obesity1. World Obesity Day…
Concerns about the second wave of Covid-19 infections have had a devastating effect on the SA Bone Marrow Registry’s (SABMR) ability to physically recruit new donors across the country, including the Eastern Cape. Nadia Chalkley, head of…
The above photograph was taken on Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Main Street and Southwell Road and shows remnants of the sewage spill from last week. Although the pavement was cleaned some debris still remains and the smell emanating…
Transcendence can be explained as moving above and beyond… through the mundane and ordinary into something more… the extraordinary. Mental and physical wellbeing are important factors and even more so during these dark days of national…
10 MYTHS BUSTED by Brian Pottinger First published by BizNews on August 19 2020 Brian Pottinger, former publisher and editor of the Sunday Times, has been watching the global – and South African response – to the Covid-19 pandemic with…
There has to be something done about the sewage that flows freely at various locations throughout Ndlambe. It is not simply because we are a favourite holiday destination but rather because people are suffering as a result of the failure…
There has been an overload of fake news about Covid-19 over the past months, with one of the most damaging falsehoods being that Covid-19 positive moms can transmit the virus through breastmilk to their little ones, and should stop…
The government has embarked on a rapid recruitment drive to secure health-care workers through a shortened seven-day recruitment process to enhance capacity in the sector, premier Oscar Mabuyane said. Mabuyane was speaking during his…
The sum of R58.4bn has been allocated to South Africa’s health budget, with R5.5bn going towards dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Health minister Zweli Mkhize tabled his department’s adjustment budget and policy statement on Thursday,…
