Staff are being redeployed and patients referred to Nemato and Station Hill clinics after the Port Alfred Town Clinic was closed on Tuesday March 19. The closure followed a burst water pipe that flooded the facility on Monday, damaging…
Two nurses from the Witbank Hospital in Mpumalanga have been suspended after the disappearance of a stillborn child at the facility last week. The provincial health department said the nurses had failed to explain what had happened to the…
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.…
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…
A nursing union that claims to represent 10‚000 nurses is threatening a stayaway from Workers’ Day on May 1 if their demands around compensation and working conditions are not met. The president of the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union…
At least 10 student nurses were arrested on Tuesday while picketing about safety issues at a Cape Town nursing college. Public order police used rubber bullets and stun grenades against more than 100 students who gathered outside the…
