"Researchers argue the 'growing' attempt to silence government health workers point 'to efforts to cover up maladministration, corruption, and the violation of human rights emanating from the government’s failure to provide basic healthcare services to the public.'"
We, @DTHF_SA and partners, strongly condemn the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed in the Ugandan Parliament on 21 March 2023. This a gross infringement of human rights and dignity and undermines sound public health policy #LGBTHealthMatters
New COIDA ambulance tariffs published. In metro area < 60 min: BLS R2596, ILS R3431, ALS R5445.
We need to find a way of billing without creating perverse incentive to upgrade calls to ALS (e.g. by giving morphine)
@NxesiThulas@HPCSA_@AlexvandeHeever@Netcare911_sa@ER24EMS
With South Africa's levels of alcohol-related trauma and interpersonal violence, we sure could benefit from minimum unit pricing. @HealthZA, what are we waiting for?
The implementation of #alcohol minimum unit price legislation leads to significant reductions in ⚰️ deaths and in hospitalisations, wholly attributable to 🍺🥃🍷alcohol consumption. https://t.co/H2Xfyb9Ky5
Mercury has many industrial applications, including in dentistry. But exposure to mercury can have serious health effects.
Draft regulations have been published to regulate it and to provide for phasing it down or out.
30 days to comment from 24/3/23.
https://t.co/ZG7Rf0czw8
@phil_w888 I'm not talking about the industry "reduced risk" disclaimers to avoid legal liability. I'm talking about the overall impression which industry is attempting to convey to win over consumers generally. Some examples below ... hardly suggesting a harmful product.
Vaping products are far from harmless, as industry would like us to believe in opposition to the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill.
Australian teenagers urge government to help them break vaping addiction https://t.co/vnZjOcRXH1
Never say never, I'd say. With a possibility of other new pandemics, I can well imagine a situation in which mandatory vaccination becomes a necessity in South Africa. At some point, the interests of public health must outweigh individual freedoms.
https://t.co/TqkbqPQTVC
#DrunkDriving 🧵
If you live in South Africa and are against drinking and driving, now is your chance to do something about it
#RoadTrafficAmendment bill is currently making its way through the National Council of Provinces after being passed in @ParliamentofRSA in September
Western Cape Health Minister has added 3 more facilities for access to Termination of Pregnancy services, adding to the list published at https://t.co/le0T24s5bD
@hcsmSA@WLCCapeTown@NACOSANet@_SRJC@WesternCapeGov
@UberMimz_15 @nena_letete That is a really sad reflection. Not conducive to a caring environment for staff or patients. A major culture change is needed in the public health sector to break this cycle of abuse.
"Researchers argue the 'growing' attempt to silence government health workers point 'to efforts to cover up maladministration, corruption, and the violation of human rights emanating from the government’s failure to provide basic healthcare services to the public.'"
In Medical brief this week...
As the full horror of the conditions at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital unfolded with the release of a damning report, and healthcare workers' first-hand accounts of the dysfunctionality...
"We call on DRDGOLD and ERPM to act in good faith in the interests of South African society, and settle their historic debts to mine workers made sick in their mines as a result of working in unsafe conditions."
The mistreatment of mine workers during the apartheid era continues to have far-reaching consequences. Sick and dying mine workers are holding on to life as their legal battle, now raging for more than a decade, continues. https://t.co/W7xBOhI08k
Eish 😲😲😲
"Although the funeral home did not want to infringe on people’s religious beliefs, they had to follow the law in terms of health regulations."