Health

City’s Robbie Nurock Day Hospital to relocate

Services will continue as normal until moved to Caledon Street

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Brief | 21 June 2016

Mitchells Plain’s safe place for vulnerable children

Staff at Baitul Ansaar open their hearts to abused and neglected children

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Feature | 3 June 2016

Complementary medicine companies are destroying consumer protection

Series of court actions aimed at Advertising Standards Authority

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Opinion | 30 May 2016

Hope for mother of disabled teen

Nomahlubi Mbulu’s plight touches GroundUp and News24 readers

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News | 25 May 2016

No jobs for newly qualified nurses

Free State Health Department fails to respond to numerous requests for comment

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News | 23 May 2016

Treatment for everyone with HIV: what will it mean?

Patients will benefit and there will be fewer new infections

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Information | 17 May 2016

Silicosis: miners win case for class certification

Obstacles remain before sick miners receive compensation but this is an important victory for them

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News | 13 May 2016

Medical experts question mayor giving platform to Patrick Holford

“Don’t follow Mbeki’s footsteps” says academic to Patricia de Lille

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News | 10 May 2016

SA vaccination programme in trouble says the man who ran it until December

Complaints about unreliable data, staffing problems and stockouts, but Health Department denies there’s a problem

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News | 10 May 2016

This simple public health intervention is cheap and saves lives

World Hand Hygiene Day focuses on promoting handwashing

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News | 6 May 2016

Increasing access to mental health counselling in Khayelitsha

Banetsi Mphunga was all smiles when he removed the huge white cloth to unveil his revamped mobile clinic

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News | 6 May 2016

New, better HIV drugs can save billions of rand

But South Africa needs to be proactive to take advantage of new medicines

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News | 5 May 2016

Mother says she has no choice but to give up her daughter

After struggling for 13 years with two severely disabled children, she can no longer cope

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News | 5 May 2016

“I want them to feel my love before I die”

Khayelitsha mother longs to bring her disabled daughters home

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News | 26 April 2016

Mother of poisoned farmworker demands answers

18-year-old died after drinking insecticide

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News | 15 April 2016

“If they understood, they would have stopped drinking”

Pregnant women warn others about dangers of alcohol

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News | 14 April 2016