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Public Health

Cultivating a culture of wellness

9 Jul 2025

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

Public Health

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

12 Jun 2025

Emergency Medicine

Western Cape EMS responds to record 69,000 calls during festive season

27 Jan 2025

Medtech

Network restored at Western Cape healthcare facilities

Katja Hamilton 6 Jan 2025

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Infectious Diseases

Cases of rubella spike countrywide while diphtheria hits Western Cape

Tamsin Metelerkamp 20 Dec 2024

Source: Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital CEO, Anita Parbhoo, is the 2024 recipient of the Jakes Gerwel Award in Public Health. Photo supplied by Jeffrey Abrahams.

Healthcare

Anita Parbhoo wins Jakes Gerwel Award

30 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Western Cape Minister of Health and Wellness, Mireille Wenger, cuts the ribbon for the new Villiersdorp Ambulance Station. With her is Overberg District Mayor, Ald Sakkie Franken, chairperson of the standing committee for health and wellness Memory Booysen, member Duwayne Jacobs, EMS director Craig Wylie and EMS staff.

Emergency Medicine

New R8.45m Villiersdorp ambulance station enhances emergency services

13 Aug 2024

Healthcare

National health budget cut: What does this mean for the Western Cape?

10 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Worst of hiring freeze over, Western Cape health department assures health workers

19 Feb 2024

Healthcare

Officials raise alarm over hiring freeze at Western Cape’s largest hospitals

Daniel Steyn 2 Feb 2024

Source: National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Public Health

Fatal diphtheria outbreak claims inmate's life in Western Cape prison

10 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied.

Public Health

HPV vaccination campaign launches in Western Cape schools

12 Sep 2023

Source: Twitter/@i_likebrandon

Public Health

Violence escalates amid ongoing Cape Metropole taxi strike, affecting emergency response

Katja Hamilton 8 Aug 2023

Source: Supplied. Podcast creator and host Maria Christodoulou.

Healthcare

The health podcast everyone's been waiting for

3 May 2023

Public Health

Antenatal care essential for protecting the health of women and their unborn children

14 Feb 2023

Covid-19

Dept of Health monitoring hospitalisations and deaths linked to new Covid-19 variant

9 Jan 2023

Healthcare

Observatory Forensic Pathology Institute nears completion

6 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. Members of Vodacom and the Western Cape Department of Health, with Premier Alan Winde, at the announcement of the distribution of 257 new cold-chain units across the province.

Covid-19

Ensuring SA's vaccine safety in the cold chain

11 Apr 2022

Economy

#SOPA2022: Premier Alan Winde pays lip service to gender-based violence

Katja Hamilton 17 Feb 2022

Source: Supplied. Conradie Park

Economy

#SOPA2022: "We're addressing the painful legacy of a divided past"

Katja Hamilton 15 Feb 2022

Covid-19

Government green-lights booster jabs; no more SMS notifications

12 Jan 2022

Covid-19

Covid-positive cases hits record daily high as Western Cape countdown to New Year begins

Katja Hamilton 31 Dec 2021

Source: SafetyMountain Tracking

Health & Social Welfare

Air Mercy Service to the rescue

Katja Hamilton 28 Dec 2021

Source: Supplied

Insurance & Actuarial

Old Mutual first: delivering mobile Covid-19 vaccinations

7 Dec 2021

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Marecia Damons 14 Sep 2021

Palliative care courses designed to empower healthcare and medical sector

Palliative care

Palliative care courses designed to empower healthcare and medical sector

Issued by MANGO-OMC 23 Feb 2021

Image: Western Cape Department of Health

Public Health

WC Health starts scaling-up essential services

17 Aug 2020

Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa

Covid-19

Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa

Issued by Scan Display 30 Jul 2020

#BizUnity: Goedgedacht pivots to allay Covid-19 pressure in Swartland

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

#BizUnity: Goedgedacht pivots to allay Covid-19 pressure in Swartland

Sindy Peters 17 Jul 2020

Shoprite donates care packages to Western Cape health department

CSI & Philanthropy

Shoprite donates care packages to Western Cape health department

8 Jul 2020

Cape Town's port problems cause citrus exports to be redirected

Agro-processing

Cape Town's port problems cause citrus exports to be redirected

Fred Meintjes 7 Jul 2020

Nomzamo Mngupane has been a nurse for six years. She said there have been staff shortages since 2018 and it has got worse since the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Covid-19

Nurses picket over staff shortages at False Bay Hospital

Ashraf Hendricks 22 Jun 2020

Community members wearing protective face masks as they queue for aid in Zandspruit informal settlement, north of Johannesburg. Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

African countries are moving to make masks mandatory: key questions answered

Shaheen Mehtar, Lucille Blumberg, Marc Mendelson 6 May 2020

Distribution

Uber adapts technology to offer delivery solution for businesses

23 Apr 2020

How, where and when to wear a mask

Covid-19

How, where and when to wear a mask

3 Apr 2020

“I am scared every day of my life. The bullets are like rain there [on the Cape Flats],” said Mary Bruce of Hanover Park. Photo: Elsabé Brits

Public Health

Western Cape health services paint bloody picture of gun violence

Elsabé Brits 12 Aug 2019

Nick Loxton, president of the UCT Surgical Society (left,) with (from second left) Sipho Ndereya, Matthew Potter and Liam Devenish, who are heading up the project.

Surgical Equipment & Products

Future doctors look for innovative solutions for healthcare challenges

2 May 2019

Photo: Kim Cloete

HIV/AIDS

Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Kim Cloete 5 Mar 2019

Deon Kotze, head of technical marketing at Discovery Health

Trends

#BizTrends2019: Medical technology to watch out for

Deon Kotze 7 Jan 2019

Social media can be an effective research tool but there are challenges

Research

Social media can be an effective research tool but there are challenges

12 Sep 2018

Groote Schuur Hospital

Neurology

UCT and Groote Schuur break ground on neuroscience centre

12 Jun 2018

Patient, Nazley Gardien with PN Marilise van Schalkwyk before her cataract surgery at Mediclinic Durbanville Day Clinic.

CSI

CSI collaboration gives back sight to public health patients

29 Nov 2017

New graduates, rural areas likely to pay the price for austerity measures

Public Health

New graduates, rural areas likely to pay the price for austerity measures

Joan van Dyk 17 Jan 2017

Doctors Nomofrench Mbombo, WC health MEC, and Beth Robertson, DoH head at the launch of Operation Khuseleka.

Public Health

WC plans to improve health worker safety

17 Aug 2016

New unit makes TB treatment safer for children

Tuberculosis

New unit makes TB treatment safer for children

14 Jul 2016

Health & Social Welfare

R25m set aside for Africa's first social impact bonds

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 30 Mar 2016

Rugby player wins compensation case after 13 years

Legal

Rugby player wins compensation case after 13 years

22 Oct 2015

COIDA judgement finds State is not considered a single entity

Labour Law

COIDA judgement finds State is not considered a single entity

Fiona Leppan, Michael Yeates and Terrick McCallum 28 Aug 2015