Health
Community health care workers protest in Khayelitsha
They are demanding to be integrated into the health department
Brief | 8 July 2020
Old age home staff protest after patient deaths
Staff refused to work after 11 of them tested positive for Covid-19 at a home in Uitenhage
Brief | 7 July 2020
Covid-19 headache was worse than surgery or childbirth, says Cape Town woman
Woodstock family describes life under Covid-19 quarantine
By James Stent
News | 25 June 2020
Nurses picket over staff shortages at False Bay Hospital
Hospital is “currently experiencing more than double the workload they have seen over the past five years” says health department
News | 22 June 2020
Community healthcare workers down tools
Union wants outsourcing stopped and workers integrated with health department
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 19 June 2020
Life may be returning to post-lockdown normality but it’s far from normal in hospitals
Here are the latest numbers from Groote Schuur
GroundView | 19 June 2020
Covid-19 Report 7: Life-saving drug is good news but no time to pop champagne
Also: Four suggestions for improving peer review, and South African death data
GroundUp and Spotlight staff
Covid-19 Report | 18 June 2020
Family left without breadwinner after methanol poisoning deaths
Six men from Masiphumelele died last week after drinking homemade beer they bought
News | 8 June 2020
“Patients are suffering” due to severe staff shortage, says NEHAWU
“Stop the politics and work together with us” Eastern Cape Health Department tells union
News | 8 June 2020