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Patients’ lives threatened in North West

Health Systems, News, Our Health

Corruption, medicine shortages, healthworkers being barred from treating patients – the public healthcare sector in the North West province has been in crisis for weeks. Health-e News’s GRAEME MAKAM reports.

Graeme
April 30, 2018

Report: Stock outs in South Africa – a national crisis

Health

Released by a civil society consortium, this report shows that one-in-five health centers surveyed had experienced drug shortages or stock outs recently.

healthe
November 28, 2013

Private pharmacies to help end stock-outs?

Health, Health Systems

Public health patients may soon be able to collect their medicine from private pharmacies in a massive public-private partnership that could eliminate medicine stock-outs.

kerrycullinan
July 30, 2013

Patients worried as medicine stock-outs continue

Our Health

Patients who are not receiving chronic anti-retroviral and tuberculosis medications due to stock-outs at clinics are worried that they will develop resistance to their treatment.

mishackmahlangu, mishackmahlangu and mishackmahlangu
July 15, 2013

Stockouts continue

Our Health

Patients and nurses particularly in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Mpumalanga continue to report medicine stock-outs at local clinics, including shortages of antiretroviral medicine.

mishackmahlangu, mishackmahlangu, mishackmahlangu and mishackmahlangu
July 9, 2013

Lamivudine stock-outs at Mabopane and Winterveld clinics

Health, Our Health

The clinics around Mabopane and Winterveld areas are out of stock of the antiretroviral medicine, lamivudine (also known as 3TC).

Mishack Mahlangu
June 28, 2013

New suppliers blamed for ARV stockouts

Health, Our Health

Stock-outs of ARVs in Soshanguve is a problem to the patients, clinic staff and caregivers.

Tshilidzi Tuwani
June 21, 2013

Catastrophe as Eastern Cape drug stock-outs continue

Health

Thousands of people living with HIV in the Eastern Cape are in catastrophic danger of developing fatal drug resistance due to ongoing interruptions in their antiretroviral (ARV) drug supplies, with activists calling on the national health minster to intervene. The…

Anso Thom
June 18, 2013

Many ECape clinics still short on drugs

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. - OurHealth spoke to patients and staff at various clinics in the OR Tambo district to hear about people's personal experiences with the health services here.

mtshanamvlisi
March 28, 2013

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