It takes most foreign-trained doctors months to register in South Africa so how did...
The Health Professions Council of South Africa was supposed to have reviewed the curriculum of some international medical schools to help foreign-trained doctors register faster in the country. Two years later, there’s still no list and some doctors are sitting idle amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Between two devils: Why hospitals must act fast to prevent health worker deaths
A new investigative report details the rapid spread of coronavirus disease in St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban, and how it could...
How one COVID-19 case at St Augustine’s Hospital led to 135 infections within 51...
The coronavirus spread rapidly through Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital and beyond and made up 14% of KwaZulu-Natal’s infections by the end...
South Africa could see 40 000 COVID-19 deaths by November
South Africa won’t have enough hospital beds to treat COVID-19 patients as symptomatic cases of COVID-19 could surpass a million by...
Politicking, pandemics and prestige: What’s really behind the squabbles at South Africa’s high-level COVID-19...
The sphere of the politics of science is intense and complex — the larger the problem, the bigger the payoff to...
National COVID-19 testing backlog means patients wait up to 10 days for results
Testing delays stoke fears that COVID-19 figures may be under-estimated.
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Q&A: When will you be able to board a plane again?
Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim both serve on the ministerial committee that advises President Cyril Ramaphosa on South Africa’s COVID-19 response....
Five ways to host a webinar that works during COVID-19
Bhekisisa just wrapped up its first online event, which was presented in partnership with the South African Health Technologies Advocacy Coalition. Here...
If your Twitter timeline is full of mentions of a fabled Madagascar cure for...
Africa Check separates fact from fiction when it comes to the lastest unproven treatment being peddled for the new coronavirus.
Seizures of illicit chloroquine skyrocket during COVID-19 outbreak — Interpol
With substandard medicines already in wide circulation, fears are growing that coronavirus could create a lethal ‘parallel crisis’.
Farmworkers: No gloves, no masks, no water
The Collective of African Workers, a grassroots organisation campaigning for an end to the shanty towns in one of Spain's most...
Expect COVID-19 outbreaks after the end of lockdown
It’s a new normal, warn South Africa’s leading coronavirus scientists. And schools and workplaces won’t be exempt from seeing sporadic outbreaks...
Are you a COVID-19 health worker? We’d like to tell your story
Whether you work in a hospital in the epicentre of South Africa’s COVID-19 outbreak in Cape Town or a clinic in...
From Central Park to Nasrec, the COVID-19 field hospitals of today are shaping the...
South Africa is scrambling to set up field hospitals in places such as the Nasrec Expo and Durban International Convention centres...
HPCSA: No plans to include foreign-trained healthcare workers in COVID-19 response
Fast-tracking unregistered healthcare workers into the system isn’t without its risks, but it’s not without its solutions either, say foreign-trained doctors....
Party’s over: Ramaphosa rejects demands to lift alcohol ban
The liquor ban may have contributed to nearly a 60% drop in trauma admissions, according to new research seen by Bhekisisa...