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Mowbray Maternity Hospital has unveiled a cutting-edge ceiling-suspended X-ray machine, significantly improving patient care and accessibility for mothers and newborns. This…
On International Prosthetics and Orthotics Day, discover how the Pinelands Orthotic and Prosthetic Centre has empowered individuals like Nokuthula Yonke, a double amputee who has…
Join us for the Voices for Palestine concert at the Trauma Centre on September 6, where music, poetry, and community spirit unite to support those affected by conflict. Celebrate…
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…
Come 2025, St Luke’s Hospice will no longer run an in-patient service at its Kenilworth facility. St Luke's Combined Hospices, a non-profit organisation, announced that it will…
The province’s hospitals are bracing for the usual spike in trauma cases over the festive season, say health officials. At the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital on…
Early detection and treatment and education play a vital role in tackling diabetes, say state hospitals. “Breaking Barriers, Bridging Gaps” the theme for World Diabetes Day, on…
Woodside Special Care Centre is making a public appeal for support for a Santa Shoebox initiative in aid of the home’s intellectually and physically disabled residents during the…
Children must be protected from preventable ills, such as malnutrition, foetal alcohol syndrome and violence, so that the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital can focus on…
Spreading the highly specialised and life-changing surgical skills needed to bring smiles to the faces of children with facial deformities was the aim of a conference held at a…
St Luke’s Combined Hospices will be the beneficiary of the Rocking4Cancer All-White Party at the West End club, in Athlone, on Friday October 4. The line-up includes DJ Ready D,…
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital CEO Dr Anita Parbhoo has received the 2024 Jakes Gerwel Award in Public Health. Dr Parbhoo received the award at a ceremony held at UWC…
Marina Auer launched her second medical thriller at Exclusive Cavendish on Thursday August 15. In conversation with radio talk show host, Pippa Hudson, the UCT Medical School…
Joe Miller describes finding one of the pandemic’s most interesting stories as getting “very lucky”.
