The department of health has warned people to ignore a voice note making the rounds claiming people vaccinated against Covid-19 are dying as a result of the vaccine and promoting the use of an unregistered product to prevent this.
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has issued a countrywide recall of a suspected contaminated sterile lubricant, Lubri-A, linked to fungus infections in 380 patients.
In a climate where health insurance products are threatening the business model of medical schemes, where healthy and young people aid the sick, commentators say under NHI this may be magnified and medical aid would become unaffordable.