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Khutsong West Clinic to close indefinitely due to sinkhole threat
Khutsong West Clinic to close indefinitely due to sinkhole threat! Residents of Khutsong, situated west of the Merafong City Municipality,…
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Gauteng Health Department appeals court ruling on cancer treatment backlog
Gauteng Health Department appeals court ruling on cancer treatment backlog! The Gauteng Department of Health is seeking to overturn a…
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Gauteng Health Department freezes 60 salaries amid payroll fraud investigation
The Gauteng Department of Health has frozen at least 60 salaries after employees failed to participate in a verification process…
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Gauteng Health looks to SAHPRA to establish task team tackling illegal sale of medicine at spaza shops
Gauteng Health looks to SAHPRA to establish task team tackling illegal sale of medicine at spaza shops! The Gauteng Department…
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Gauteng Health: Over R1 million of the R3.9 million unlawfully paid to 7 Cuban doctors recovered
The Gauteng Department of Health said it had recovered over R1 million of the R3.9 million unlawfully paid to seven…
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MEC Maile reveals Gauteng Health Dept sitting with over R18 billion in litigation fees
An exorbitant bill of R18 billion in litigation fees at the Gauteng Department of Health is adding further strain to…
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ActionSA demands action against Gauteng Health officials following auditor-general’s report
ActionSA Gauteng has voiced significant concern regarding the Auditor-General’s (AG) recent report for the 2023/24 financial year on the Gauteng…
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More calls to fix public health facilities
Health activists are calling on the Gauteng Department of Health to urgently attend to the infrastructure and personnel issues at…
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Gauteng Health Dept investigating claims of inhumane treatment at Helen Joseph Hospital
The Gauteng Department of Health is probing allegations of inhumane treatment at Helen Joseph Hospital. On Saturday, seasoned broadcaster Tom…
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Gauteng Health Dept dismisses claims its hospitals are shoddy after viral video criticizing Helen Joseph
The Gauteng Department of Health has dismissed claims that its hospitals are in a poor state after a complaint about…
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Food poisoning is on the rise in Gauteng
The Gauteng Department of Health has urged parents and caregivers to be more vigilant with their children, as more and…
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Baragwanath Hospital urges families to collect bodies of their loved ones
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Orlando, Soweto, has appealed to family members to collect the bodies of their…
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PP says Gauteng Health Dept acted improperly in appointing Ashley Mthunzi as Tembisa Hospital CEO
The Public Protector has found that the Gauteng Department of Health acted improperly in hiring the late Dr Ashley Mthunzi…
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Psychiatric patient dies in fire at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Tshwane
A 35-year-old woman, who was a patient at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital’s female psychiatric unit, died when a…
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Health facilities power supply restored after Zola substation fire
The Gauteng Department of Health says power supply has been restored to health facilities that were affected by the fire…
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ANC head of elections in Gauteng accused of assaulting paramedic at hospital
A senior ANC official in Gauteng is alleged to have been involved in an altercation with a female paramedic. The…
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DENOSA & Gauteng Health Dept to remember health workers who died in Boksburg blast
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) and the Gauteng Department of Health are set to remember the health…
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Dept of Gauteng Health urges public to refrain from risky behaviour after recording spike in STIs
The Gauteng Department of Health urged the public to refrain from engaging in risky s.e.xual behaviour, as it recorded a…
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Gauteng Health Dept: Attacks on health workers impact delivery of services to communities
The Gauteng Department of Health has condemned an attack on staff members in Mamelodi. A team from the Stanza Bopape…
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Gauteng welcomed 412 babies on New Year
The Gauteng Province has witnessed an influx of joy as 412 babies were successfully delivered on January 1, 2024. The…
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Gauteng Health Dept unveils memorial wall for 12 nurses who died in Boksburg blast
The Gauteng Department of Health unveiled a wall of remembrance to honour the memory of the healthcare workers killed by…
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Gauteng health disputes part of City Power debt
The Gauteng Department of Health has disputed some of the unpaid bill amounts that City Power says are owed by…
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Gauteng Health: Close to 80% of Charlotte Maxeke hospital’s City Power bill paid
The Gauteng Department of Health says it has already paid some R32 million of the R41 million that the Charlotte…
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Fake TikTok doctor Matthew Lani to appear in court on Tuesday
The Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigations (known as the Hawks) have confirmed Matthew Lani is expected to make his first…
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7 months pregnant woman found hanging in hospital bathroom
Nurses at the Kopanong District Hospital in Vereeniging made a gruesome discovery in the early hours of Saturday morning while…
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Accused in Babita Deokaran murder expected to plead guilty in court
The Babita Deokaran case returns to court on Tuesday when the six men who were arrested and charged with the…
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Power restored to South Rand District Hospital
Power has now been restored to the South Rand District Hospital in Gauteng following a power outage which hit the…
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Healthcare worker clobbered with a hammer and robbed in a lift at a Gauteng hospital
A National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) staff member was assaulted with a hammer on her head and robbed of her…
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Gauteng Health Dept to crack down on delayed release of bodies from mortuaries
The Gauteng Department of Health has established a provincial task team to address the backlog in the release of corpses…
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Gauteng residents urged to refrain from damaging medical facilities during protests
Gauteng residents have been urged to refrain from damaging medical facilities during service delivery protests. Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko…
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Gauteng Health executes process to appoint new CEO at tainted Rahima Moosa hospital
The Gauteng Department of Health says progress is being made to implement the health ombudsman’s recommendations at the troubled Rahima…
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50 000 babies delivered at Tembisa Hospital in the past 3 years
The Gauteng Department of Health says over the past three years, the Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital’s (TPTH) neonatal and maternity…
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Gauteng Health Dept secures interdict against protesting nursing students
The Gauteng Department of Health on Sunday said it obtained a court interdict to put an end to the ongoing…
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Electricity Minister Ramokgopa to visit Baragwanath & address impact of power cuts on healthcare
Minister of Electricity Kgosientso Ramokgopa will be visiting the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital on Saturday morning. He plans to…
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Gauteng Health apologises after mom went home with wrong baby from Chris Hani Hospital
Two Gauteng mothers are receiving trauma counselling to help them cope with their ordeal after their newborn babies were swopped…
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DA calls on Health Minister Phaahla to provide timelines responding to Rahima Moosa report
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on the Gauteng Health Department to act urgently to address the issues plaguing the…
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Ekurhuleni ANC bigshot’s home raided over Tembisa hospital tender graft
The Hawks have raided the home and business of the ANC’s treasurer-general in Ekurhuleni, Sello Sekhokho. According to reports by…
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ConCourt affirms Special Tribunal’s powers and jurisdiction
The Constitutional Court has affirmed the Special Investigating Unit (SIU)’s Special Tribunal’s ability to set aside illegal contracts and recover…
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Boksburg explosion death toll rises to 18
The death toll in the Boksburg gas tanker explosion has risen to 18. The Gauteng Department of Health says nine…
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Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital patients to be moved back to ICU after stolen copper oxygen pipe replaced
Patients at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital are set to be moved back into the intensive care unit (ICU) ward…
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Gauteng Health MEC: Tembisa Hospital video was taken out of context
The Gauteng Department of Health confirmed that the video circulating on social media showing a patient sleeping on the floor,…
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Gauteng Health still awaiting Charlotte Maxeke Hospital fire report
The Gauteng Department of Health on Monday said it had not received any forensic report on the fire at the…
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Tembisa Hospital CEO Ashley Mthunzi & provincial health CFO Lerato Madyo suspended amid R850 million tender probe
The Gauteng provincial government has placed the chief financial officer of the Gauteng Department of Health and the chief executive…
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Family remembers whistleblower Babita Deokaran a year after her murder
Emotional scenes unfolded outside Babita Deokaran’s home on Tuesday morning, as her loved ones gathered to pay homage to the…
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Patient dies after jumping from 6th floor window at Steve Biko Academic Hospital
The Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria said a male patient has died after he jumped from the window of…
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State has 1 600 pages of evidence against Babita Deokaran murder accused
The High Court in Johannesburg has heard that the State has a whopping 1,600 pages of evidence against Babita Deokaran’s…
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Another fire breaks out at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital
The Gauteng department of health on Wednesday, said the smouldering fire which was detected in an unused parking bay at…
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Health MEC Mokgethi seeks to turn around Gauteng ambulance response time & patient care
Gauteng Department of Health emergency medical services (EMS) has introduced the G-SET programme as part of efforts to improve EMS…
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R103 million PPE tender awarded to Khusela Diko’s relative declared unlawful
The Special Tribunal has declared an R103 million PPE tender awarded to a relative of former presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko…
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Babita Deokaran‘s family worried that mastermind behind murder still not caught
Babita Deokaran’s family has again called for the authorities to move on the mastermind or masterminds behind her murder. Deokaran,…
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