What happened The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) detected two polio virus strains VDPV3 and nOPV2-L in wastewater samples from a treatment plant in Cape...
The Constitutional Court has declared the “Certificate of Need” (CON) provisions in the Health Care Act unconstitutional. The judgment written by Judge Kate Savage and delivered...
The World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency on 17 May 2026 after an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the Democratic...
Former rugby prop Rhys Thomas urges South Africans to register as organ donors after successful heart transplant Rhys Thomas, a 43-year-old former professional rugby player, has...
Gauteng Department of Health has announced a package of staffing, infrastructure and operational measures aimed at stabilising Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Mogale City as the...
A passenger who later died from hantavirus was briefly on board a KLM flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam but was removed by the crew before the...
The untimely death of 26-year-old Dr Alulutho Mazwi, a medical intern at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in uMlazi, has sent shockwaves through South Africa’s medical community,...