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Free State shouldn’t violate patients’ rights, SAHRC warns

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Some of society's most helpless people are admitted to the Free State Psychiatric Complex for care. But with the challenges the facility has, it’s unable to do that to the best of its ability.

Teboho
October 29, 2019

Calls for increased budgets in the mental health sector

Our Health

The Life Esidimeni tragedy, patient abuse and suicide by health professionals are among the issues pointing to a dire need for better management of public sector psychiatry.

Zizo Zikali
February 8, 2019

Calls for increased budgets in the mental health sector

Our Health

The Life Esidimeni tragedy, patient abuse and suicide by health professionals are among the issues pointing to a dire need for better management of public sector psychiatry.

Zizo Zikali
February 8, 2019

‘Dros rapist’: Mentally ill more likely to be victims

News

The South African Federation for Mental Health (SAFMH) has condemned local media houses for creating the impression that people living with mental illness are violent and criminally dangerous in the wake of rape-accused Nicholas Ninow’s defence citing his psychological state in court.

Amy Green
November 7, 2018

Global mental health report blasts SA for Esidimeni

News

Exactly a year after the start of the arbitration hearings that sought justice for the families of the dead Life Esidimeni patients, the esteemed The Lancet medical journal has released a global mental health report condemning the local disaster as “tragic”.

Amy Green
October 10, 2018

A psychiatrist’s battle against the system

Health Systems

One man’s fight to ensure humane treatment for mentally ill patients at a rural Eastern Cape psychiatric hospital has sparked various consequences, with at least one monitoring body calling out a cover-up and the hospital CEO handing in her resignation late last Thursday night.

GillGifford
June 4, 2018

Unhappiness with witness list for Esidimeni hearings

News, Our Health

Lawyers acting on behalf of bereaved families of the former Life Esidimeni patients are disappointed with the list of witnesses introduced by the state on the first day of hearings into the deaths of the psychiatric patients.

Masutane
October 9, 2017

Psychiatric patients at Joburg Hospital can’t wash

Mental Health, News, Our Health

Patients at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) psychiatric ward cannot bath or shower because the water leaks into other wards.

jamesthabo
July 3, 2017

Medical aids and the high cost of psychiatric meds

News

Many people suffering from depression and anxiety rely on expensive medication, but they are often not covered by medical aid.

Amy Green
May 10, 2017

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A decade wait but still no psychiatric ward

News, Our Health

It has been almost 10 years since the psychiatric ward in Tshilidzini Hospital outside of Thohoyandou in Limpopo was burnt down – and still it has not been restored or repaired.