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Dire straits at Eastern Cape's All Saints Hospital as...

Water is vital for delivering proper healthcare services, so when the taps ran dry at All Saints Hospital in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape two months ago, things took a turn for the worse. Siyabonga Kamnqa visited the hospital and asked authorities how they plan to deal with the crisis. ....

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A snip in time: Exploring what's behind SA's low va...


According to
Unwanted Fertility in South Africa, a recently published report from Statistics South Africa, “about 20% of all births in the five years preceding the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey (including pregnancies at the time), happened when women were not planning on having any more children”. The report shows an increase in unwanted births from 17.3% in 1998 to 20.4% in 2016.
The public sector offers various forms of temporary contraception – including condoms and birth control pills, intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants for women – although availability varies between healthcare facilities. There are no registered contraceptive pills or implants for men, but research is ongoing.
There are more permanent options such as female and male sterilisation – the latter in the form of vasectomy. According to a ....

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How drones may become instrumental in SA's health ser...


Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have been used for more than two decades to deliver medical supplies and food aid to disaster-hit areas – and new uses for these devices are constantly being found.
In countries such as Rwanda and Ghana, logistics companies like Zipline have developed and currently operate drones that deliver much-needed medical supplies to rural hospitals. Such distribution solutions may also have a role to play in rural parts of South Africa where roads are often poor. But drones can potentially function as much more than just unmanned, flying delivery vehicles.
Fighting malaria
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is currently evaluating the use of drone technology in the fight against malaria, says Professor Rajendra Maharaj, Director of the SAMRC’s Office of Malaria Research. ....

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