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Condemned as a shameful human rights violation, eight years since the Life Esidimeni fiasco, psychiatric care in our public health system is still wanting. Suicidal young people often have to wait weeks for counselling, while homes for those living with mental and physical disabilities are

The way in which Gautengs social development department has treated nonprofits funding this year reminds, to some extent, of the provincial health departments conduct in the Life Esidimeni saga. Public administration determines who gets which state resources when, and why. When it comes to

The National Health Laboratory Services plans to pilot a new way for finding tuberculosis (TB) in kids have been put on hold after a cyberattack shut down computer systems at the state labs. South Africa isnt doing well at finding children with TB, and just 60% of those with the disease ar

An inquest into the death of 141 state mental health patients between June 2016 and October 2017 found that Gautengs former health MEC, Qedani Mahlangu, and the former head of mental health, Makgabo Manamela, can be held responsible for the deaths of at least nine Life Esidimeni pati

Findings of the inquest into the Life Esidimeni inquest are being released this afternoon. Between October 2015 and June 2016, a tragedy unfolded when up to 1 606 mental health patients were moved from the private care facilities of the Life Esidimeni group to state hospitals and

The findings of a legal inquest set up to decide whether there is enough evidence to prosecute Gauteng health department officials and workers of nonprofits for criminal charges, will be released today . The inquest revolves around the unnatural deaths of 141 out of 144 government mental h

Four days after our TV show, Health Beat, was broadcast on eNCA the Freedom Recovery Centre , which helps drug users sober up, got confirmation from the Gauteng government that they would receive the subsidy they had been waiting for for months. Witho

Gauteng social development department funding cuts are resulting in organisations looking after the elderly and disabled, as well as those helping people with substance abuse problems, having to close down. In May, the Gauteng High Court ordered the provincial government to honou

In early May, a new case of mpox was reported in South Africa, the first since 2022. By 21 June, South Africa had 13 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases in three provinces (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape). Two people have died. So far, all cases required hospitalisation. Of