paediatrician, gastroenterologist, father, husband, cyclist , Saffro-Belgian, activist & occasionally funny when allowed a word in edgewise. views my own
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Episode 4 | Dr Lesego Ndhlovu - Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Co-Fou... youtu.be/xOKPue6DRzI?si=WPPv… via @YouTube
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The Gauteng High Court, on Friday upheld the right of all pregnant and lactating women, and children under 6, irrespective of nationality and documentation status, to access #freehealthservices at all public health establishments, including hospitals.
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The hospital is dedicated to the care of obstetric, gynaecological and paediatric patients but has recently been plagued with issues. To commemorate the milestone, Footprints 4 Sam, a charitable trust wants to raise funds to renovate the neonatal ... dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
Where are our politicians, police, army? Yet again, the poor and vulnerable are suffering while those in power are washing their hands with expensive whiskey dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
This! Children are being denied healthcare services despite being born in SA. These are not medical tourists! dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Our complicity for other people’s indignity lies in what we choose not to see, not to comment on, not to question about our abnormal environments. It’s in the way we’ve made peace with stark inequalities, adjusted to the abnormal. It’s in many of our ... dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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At last
Twitter South Africans has spent today speaking about access to public health care. Many are convinced that our illegal Zimbabweans are responsible for our “overburdened” health system. A narrative started by Former Health Minister Dr Motsoaledi.
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Specialist doctors at many state facilities aren’t showing up to work despite earning millions of rands a year in taxpayer money. The consequences for patient health can be devastating but not everyone agrees on the solutions. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Well done for highlighting an elephant in the room, receiving a full-time salary from the public sector should equal 40 hours plus overtime per week spent in the public sector!
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Maternal and Child Healthcare Case June 2022 - SECTION27 launches court application for access to #healthcare services for all pregnant women and young children at public hospitals.
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Dear Minister Phaahla, the ‘medical tourist mom’ is... dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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JUST IN: Gauteng health in flames – making it through the fires and fumbles of SA’s richest province.@SECTION27news @WitsHealthFac @ShabirMadh @FrancoisVenter3 @SHA_ZAR @TimDeMaayer @GautengHealth @HealthZA @David_Makhura @HelenJosephHos @umunyana_rugege
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@SJDStevenson begins: "the delinquent provincial government was the government that houses the City of Gold, national government and the Constitutional Court... And yet we have seen, for years, how disaster seems to court @GautengHealth." #GautengHealth @WitsHealthFac
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Gauteng health crisis — MEC for Health Nomathemba Mok... " It's not a crisis" , "it's the foreigner influx", "it's the aging infrastructure". Lots of finger pointing, little action. In the meantime patients are dying. Health workers are burnt out. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
CRITICAL CONDITION: While taps run dry, generators malfunction and health workers despair, Gauteng children’s hospital CEO denies a crisis dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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The SA Medical Association has refuted claims that Gauteng hospitals are under pressure due to an influx of illegal immigrants. Section27's Sasha Stevenson looks at the extent that the healthcare system accommodates foreign nationals. #Newzroom405
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