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A total of 101 babies were born in public health facilities on New Year’s Day, with a girl being the first one born seven minutes after midnight. Western Cape Department of…
About 1000 of the estimated 400 000 new childhood cancer cases diagnosed worldwide each year occur in South Africa with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting that…
Kaashief Lakay is on a mission to honour the lives of children who have lost their battle against cancer. The founder of the Maitland-based Kids-Can Cancer Foundation, a…
Mpox, a infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus, is under control in the Western Cape even after the second case was recorded last week, says the provincial Department…
“I wanted to give up and I wanted everything just to come to an end. It’s all I could think of.” These are the words of a single mother of one from Observatory, who was on the…
Health officials have encouraged mothers to breastfeed their babies for the first six months, whilst calling on communities to create a healthy environment for them. They are…
Patients should use appointment systems at health-care facilities across the province to avoid queuing in the cold, dark early morning and waiting for hours to be seen, says the…
“It is never too late to quit smoking and vaping,” that is the message from the provincial health department on World Tobacco Day last Friday May 31. World Tobacco Day is a World…
