Health
Mayhem at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital as workers demand performance bonuses
Hospital staff were intimidated and patients had to be locked inside for their safety
By Zoë Postman and GroundUp Staff
News | 31 May 2018
Nurses call for Health MEC to be axed
KZN nurses say they are chronically short-staffed and underpaid
Brief | 24 May 2018
“We had no thermometer in the whole clinic”
Nurses at East London clinic say they are battling
By Chris Gilili
News | 23 May 2018
How do we prevent South Africans from getting sick with TB?
Part three of a three-part series on a neglected disease that kills over a hundred thousand South Africans every year
Feature | 22 May 2018
Call to dissolve KZN Premier’s health intervention team
Employees say conditions at head office have become unbearable
Brief | 8 May 2018
Zimbabwe’s nurses complain of poor working conditions
Union says government needs to go back to the drawing board
Brief | 8 May 2018
Cape Flats residents criticise poor service at clinics
Long waiting times, rude nursing staff, and patient folders go missing, say residents
News | 3 May 2018
Khayelitsha hospital under the spotlight
Patients’ complaints prompt TAC meeting
News | 30 April 2018
Family wants answers after relative murdered in hospital
Tapiwa Chipika, a Zimbabwean, is believed to have been strangled in a ward
Brief | 29 March 2018