Category: SA Health General
150 Posts
Potential to save lives: An intensive care doctor argues for ‘compassionate use’ of ivermectin for Covid-19
Adjusted Level 3 Nationwide Lockdown
COVID-19, Global Health, SA Health General
BBC: SA variant more transmissible than UK variant of COVID-19
Nationwide lockdown and the new Covid-19 variant?
Patient information on COVID-19
COVID-19, Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, SA Health General
Five things the mid-term budget tells us about the SA healthcare system
Human Resources, Population Health and COPC, Primary health care, SA Health General
National guidance and district-level practices in the supervision of community health workers in South Africa: A qualitative study
SAHR 2021 call for abstracts: Health sector responses to covid-19
COVID-19, Population Health and COPC, SA Health General
COVID-19 Health is In Our Hands Awareness
#Masks4allinAfrica, COVID-19, SA Health General
Masks – Who wears them and Why it matters
Ramaphosa takes South Africa out of hard lockdown, lifts cigarette and alcohol ban
COVID-19, Human Resources, SA Health General
SA’s nurses: Poorly trained, in poor health, and living in fear
Inside Nasrec Field Hospital’s Red Zone
All-cause deaths in SA as at 28th July 2020
COVID-19, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Hospitals, SA, 7th August
Nervous COVID-19 patients want home care rather than hospital admission
Health Systems Organisation, SA Health General
Why rural South Africans don’t get emergency medical care in time
Jhb City level responses to drug use and HIV in the context of COVID-19
Inappropriate for Jacob Zuma to headline Andrew Mlangeni’s memorial – ANC stalwarts
Why the models got the Western Cape so wrong | COVID-19 Lockdown
CMSA urges govt to reconsider new taxi loading rules | COVID Lockdown
Human Resources, SA Health General
Foreign-trained doctors rue not able to register to help fight COVID-19
COVID-19 Nationwide Lockdown: Ramaphosa declares schools will shut for 4 weeks – but Grade 12s get 1 week’s break
Zweli Mkhize plays down discrepancy in reported deaths
COVID-19, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Eastern Cape, SA, 31st July
Corruption wreaks healthcare services
Mamokgethi Phakeng has shaken the edifice(s) of white social certification
South Africa endures coronavirus crisis as health services collapse – BBC News
Taxi capacity rules ‘justified and supported by science’, says health MEC
SA MRC Reports on Deaths in SA as at 7th July 2020
Coronavirus chaos: BBC goes inside SA’s ‘hospitals of horrors’
Groote Schuur medic describes her day in a Covid-19 ward
NASREC
Covid-19: Western Cape and Gauteng prepare for the peak
State patients in private hospitals: What’s the deal?
Gauteng’s Nasrec Field Hospital gets first patients after life-saving donations
COVID-19, Primary health care, SA Health General
Covid-19: Are SA’s district hospitals government’s coronavirus blindspot?
COVID-19: Seven lessons from the Western Cape
Johannesburg doctors desperate
Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa
COVID-19, Patient Advice, SA Health General
Distance, Dose, Dispersion: Experts’ guide on Covid-19 risks in South Africa and how to manage them
Africa, COVID-19, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – private sector in Jhb, South Africa, 10th July (6pm)
Covid-19 explodes in Gauteng, Dlamini Zuma must make Lockdown 2.0 decision
COVID-19, Educational Resource, SA Health General
HOW TO PROVIDE RESPIRATORY SUPPORT FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS
Webinar: Clinical Collaboration in the Time of COVID-19
Deaths in SA rise significantly higher than predicted – SAMRC report
COVID-19, Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, SA Health General
South Africa sets aside more money for Covid-19 but lacks spending strategy
Letter from a doctor: Rats, dirty laundry and finding hope in Eastern Cape hospital
Eastern Cape healthcare has collapsed: ‘Sick people are fighting each other’
Africa, COVID-19, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Cape Town, South Africa, 3rd July
Gauteng’s active Covid-19 cases have doubled to over 21 000 in a week, deaths too
Human Resources, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: Future of nursing in SA
COVID-19, Primary health care, SA Health General, Universal Health Coverage
Covid-19 surge: Investing heavily in ICU capacity is not the only option
COVID-19 Promising Practices: SA
COVID focus must stress prevention and good, early treatment
Does anyone remember Life Esidimeni? Of short memories, public service and truth telling
COVID-19, Primary health care, SA Health General
A day in the life of a Covid-19 clinic on the Cape Flats
Ghost hospital: patients abandoned
South Africa can get Covid-19 under control if it blocks the routes that enable transmission
Beware false negative PCR tests, warns Groote Schuur doctor
Nasal oxygen treatment instead of ventilators sees Covid-19 recoveries at hospital in Cape Town
HIV, Jhb CPD, SA Health General, Webinars
Jhb CPD Webinar: Using TLD, 12th June
SA amends criteria for Covid-19 testing
COVID-19, Primary health care, SA Health General
‘People are not taking this virus seriously’ – Voices from townships under level 3 lockdown
Africa, COVID-19, Mother & Child, Primary health care, SA Health General
‘Nurses sat and watched and did nothing to help me give birth’
First 20 US-donated ventilators installed at Baragwanath hospital in Soweto
SA government signs deal for private sector beds
Covid-19: The epidemic reveals the cracks in our health and welfare systems
Africa, COVID-19, SA Health General
Government projections on SA Covid-19 fatalities questioned by private research group
‘She was the perfect nurse’ – a husband’s pain as wife Anncha Kepkey dies of Covid-19
SA GPs sing for you to stay home!
Africa, COVID-19, SA Health General
Coronavirus in South Africa: Eight lessons for the rest of the continent
Sort out the testing backlog
#Masks4allinAfrica, Africa, COVID-19, SA Health General
Disinfection tunnels for Covid-19 have a negligible benefit and are potentially dangerous
COVID-19, Jhb CPD, SA Health General, Webinars
Jhb CPD Webinar: Q&A from Gauteng COVID-19 Command Centre
Between two devils: Why hospitals must act fast to prevent health worker deaths
#Masks4allinAfrica, COVID-19, SA Health General
Lockdown Level 3: What you will be allowed to do and what you won’t
Covid-19: Groote Schuur on the brink
New NICD COVID Clinical Guidelines (18 May 2020)
#Masks4allinAfrica, COVID-19, SA Health General
Covid-19 projections show 12 to 13 million infections by November
Grim Covid-19 projections for SA: 40 000 deaths, 1 million infections and a dire shortage of ICU beds
COVID-19 has spread to Gauteng’s townships
Unscientific and nonsensical: Top scientist slams government’s lockdown strategy
National COVID-19 testing backlog means patients wait up to 10 days for results
Alex van den Heever: We have not ‘flattened the curve’ and our current trajectory is very concerning
SA Doctors concerned about severe Covid-19 testing delays
Apply for paediatric registrar and medical officer posts in Jhb
The changing pattern of Covid-19 makes it harder to predict how severe it might be – Mkhize
Beyond the emergency: ‘Slow catastrophes’ after Covid-19
What’s up with SA’s Covid-19 infection numbers?
In a national address, Ramaphosa announces mass screening and testing campaign
Go to SAcoronavirus.co.za for official government updates on Covid-19
Mkhize concerned by number of health workers diagnosed with Covid-19
COVID-19, Jhb CPD, SA Health General, Webinars
Jhb CPD Webinar: Pneumonia with COVID-19
Covid-19: a remote assessment in primary care by BMJ
Volunteer doctors on call
Resuscitation in COVID-19
