By Staff Reporter NEARLY 400 junior doctors have finally agreed to end their month long job action after the government on Friday finally gave in to their pay demands. Under the new arrangement, government has agreed to increase junior doctors’...
A woman who was verbally and physically abused after giving birth on the floor of a state-run hospital in Kenya won a landmark 2.5 million shillings ($24,789) in damages on Thursday. Josephine Majani delivered her baby on the floor of...
THE Zimbabwean government has threatened to cease salaries and allowances for striking government health professionals. In a memo directed to all chief executive officers and provincial medical directors, health and child care secretary Gerald Gwindi said “cessation of salary and...
A JUDGE ordered a provincial government in South Africa to pay $15 million in damages to families of at least 144 psychiatric patients who he said died of negligence after being moved to unregistered facilities in early 2016. About 1,300...
SEVERAL southern African states have banned processed meat from South Africa after it said it had identified the source of a food poisoning outbreak. The government blamed the sausage known as polony for the listeria poisoning that has killed 180...
Cape Town - Supermarket giants Shoprite and Pick n Pay on Sunday indicated they are withdrawing all products linked to the source of the world’s largest outbreak of listeria, which claimed 180 lives. This followed a safety recall by the...
PARLIAMENT was on Tuesday told that people living with both disabilities and HIV and Aids were experiencing communication challenges at health centres across the country, leading to unnecessary deaths. Appearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio on Health and Child Care, Deaf...
Often times, advice by health experts to test for HIV more than once falls on deaf ears. But the story of a one Farida Kiconco, a resident of Ntungamo in Western Uganda affirms that the advice by medical doctors should...
By Philemon Jambaya A FEMALE sexual rights advocacy group, Katswe Sistahood has implored government to repeal the Termination of Pregnancy Act (ToP) which outlaws abortions saying it should be replaced by legislation that suits current times. The Termination of Pregnancy...
The new head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is rethinking a plan to appoint Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's original proposal sparked an outcry. He had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment...
