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Gauteng hospitals bleeding millions

18 Mar 2024
In only nine months, the Gauteng Health Department paid R623m to claimants who instituted medical negligence or malpractice proceedings against it, reported News24 (15 March 2024).
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India to distribute affordable malaria vaccine in Africa

18 Mar 2024
The Serum Institute of India plans to distribute an affordable malaria vaccine, R21, in Africa by May. Plans are in place to distribute 25m doses this year. The vaccine was developed in collaboration with researchers from Oxford University. Malaria, primarily transmitted through mosquitoes, results in over 600,000 deaths annually, with 95% occurring in Africa. – AFP (17 March 2024).
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Mediclinic cleared of fraud claims

17 Mar 2024
“Extensive investigations by law firm ENSafrica and medical scheme administrator Discovery Health have cleared private hospital group Mediclinic of billing fraud at its Southern Africa subsidiary,” reported Business Day (13 March 2025).
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Decrease in global child mortality

17 Mar 2024
Recent data released by the United Nations showed that the global number of children who passed away before reaching five years of age decreased to 4.9m. - Reuters (13 March 2024), “Despite the under-5 mortality rate being nearly cut in half since the year 2000, the world is lagging in its objective to minimise preventable child deaths by 2030, with the pace of reduction slowing since 2015.
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Amazon to deliver Eli Lilly medicines

17 Mar 2024
Eli Lilly has partnered with Amazon’s pharmacy division to provide delivery services, called LillyDirect, for prescriptions ordered through its direct-to-consumer platform, reported Reuters (13 March 2024).
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RAF bid to appeal judgment on claim requirements

06 Dec 2023
On 5 December 2023 the Pretoria High Court rejected the Road Accident Fund’s (RAF) request to reconsider a previous verdict from November, reported Business Day. “The ruling mandated eliminating the stringent new requirements for filing claims outlined in a 2021 board notice.”
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Covid-19 vaccines: ‘Health Department squandered the opportunity’

07 Sep 2023
“Health activists are right to draw attention to this grossly unfair situation. (Covid-19 vaccine deals) But the far bigger scandal is that the Health Department squandered the opportunity after spending an estimated R14-bn on Covid-19 jabs and belatedly filling its warehouses with enough doses to vaccinate the nation” – Business Day (7 September 2023).
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EDITORIAL: Health Minister must halt care crisis

20 Jan 2023

NHI, the government’s plan for universal health coverage, rests heavily on nurse-led care. Yet where these nurses will come from is a mystery. – Editorial (Business Day 20 January 2023).
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Study raises concerns about quality of hospital meals

12 Jan 2023

According to a study of meals served at Cape Town hospitals the food served to hospital patients are way below the health department “ration scale” and patients’ energy requirements, reportedFinancial Mail (12 January 2023).
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Health Minister’s comment provides ‘some comfort to medical scheme industry’

15 Jun 2022

 

Health Minister Joe Phaahla’s comment that NHI will be implemented step-by-step - gradually phasing out the role of medical schemes in the private sector - should provide some comfort to these private healthcare services, according to Business Day (15 June 2022)


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Activists demands change in intellectual property laws

10 Nov 2021

 

Activists from Fix the Patent Laws Campaign (FTPL) urged government to change intellectual property laws to allow more people to access lifesaving medicine for serious ailments such as cancer, HIV, Covid, tuberculosis, mental health and diabetes.


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Vaccination slashes Covid deaths and ICU stays

10 Nov 2021
Bloomberg reported on 9th November that an Australian study found that people who are fully vaccinated are 16 times less likely to end up in intensive care wards or to die from Covid-19 than those who have not been immunised.
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COVID-19: The big wave is coming

09 Jun 2020

“It is only a matter of time before the rest of South Africa reaches the surge in COVID-19 coronavirus cases currently being experienced in the Western Cape, experts warn,” reported City Press (7 June 2020).


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