Health
High demand for Covid-19 vaccine among Eastern Cape health workers
After initial reluctance there is now great excitement, as rollout proceeds
News | 4 March 2021
Right to die: patients would be vulnerable to unscrupulous doctors and relatives, judge hears
Health Professions Council’s lawyer argues that a legal option available to people is to starve themselves to death
News | 4 March 2021
Dying man cross-examined in euthanasia case
Ministers oppose bid to change the law
Law | 2 March 2021
A dying man makes the case for legalising euthanasia
“My biggest fear is that when my love of life reaches the stage of fearing life, I will not be able to die” says Diethelm Harck
Law | 1 March 2021
Patients turned away as clinics close over health worker protests
Union pleads for government to intervene as “the poor are suffering”
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Loyiso Dyongman
News | 23 February 2021
Community health workers disrupt clinics in Eastern Cape
They have been demanding to be made permanent for years
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 18 February 2021
Activists demand transparency over Covid-19 vaccine roll out
Right2Know pickets outside Gauteng health department
Brief | 17 February 2021
“I can’t recall the last time I saw the municipal rubbish truck”: Makhanda families dump their rubbish in the street
But the municipality says it collects rubbish regularly
News | 5 February 2021
UK accused of poaching health workers from poorer countries
It’s “insensitive” and “morally questionable”, write two doctors in the South African Medical Journal
News | 21 January 2021