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  • Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku and the provincial executive council on 31 March 2020 rolled out massive community screenings and testing programmes in Alexandra township to screen residents for coronavirus (COVID-19). Picture: Ahmed Kajee/EWN.

    Gauteng health dept ramps up efforts against COVID-19 spread ahead of winter

    As the winter season approaches, there have been concerns around the pandemic overwhelming Gauteng’s health system.

    822 days ago
  • COVID-19 tests conducted in Marikana Informal settlement

    Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku and a team of field workers visited the Glen Marikana Informal settlement, near Kempton Park, for a screening and testing campaign aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus on 17 April 2020.

    843 days ago
  • Netcare's Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: www.netcarehospitals.co.za

    6 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Netcare’s Kingsway Hospital

    All new patient admissions at Kingsway Hospital have been halted indefinitely.

    844 days ago
  • The GP government said it was aiming to have at least 500 beds in this facility. Picture: Bonga Dlulane/EWN.

    Masuku: COVID-19 makeshift hospital to fit over 2,000 beds

    The facility forms part of the government’s response to flattening the curve against COVID-19.

    846 days ago
  • Gauteng Premier David Makhura at a media briefing on the coronavirus on 25 March 2020. Picture: @GautengProvince/Twitter

    Makhura: Not enough people practising social distancing

    Makhura urged South Africans to stop panic buying in order to reduce overcrowding and potential infections.

    862 days ago
  • Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku. Picture: @bandilemasuku/Twitter

    Contact tracing ‘now a challenge’ after Gauteng family tried to avoid quarantine

    The family refused to be quarantined after a woman and her daughter tested positive for the coronavirus.

    873 days ago
  • FILE: Former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku. Picture: @BandileMasuku/Twitter

    Gauteng’s first confirmed coronavirus patient recovering well: Masuku

    The department confirmed she had tested positive after she had direct contact with the first patient from KwaZulu-Natal.

    881 days ago
  • FILE: Former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku. Picture: @BandileMasuku/Twitter

    Staff at 3 hospitals 'trained' to deal with possible coronavirus outbreak

    Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, Steve Biko Academic Hospital and Tembisa Hospital have been identified to deal with any patients that test positive.

    921 days ago
  • Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku visited 76-year-old Martha Marais on 5 January 2020. Picture: Nthakoana Ngatane/EWN

    Gauteng Health Dept compensates Martha Marais for ill-treatment

    76-year-old Martha Marais was found by her family restrained under a bench, lying on the tiled floor, at the Mamelodi Hospital last year.

    946 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Gauteng hospitals deliver 390 babies on Christmas Day

    The 183 girls and 207 boys, including one set of twins, were delivered at hospitals and healthcare centres around the province.

    956 days ago
  • A mother at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg holds her new-born baby on Christmas Day. Picture: Nthakoana Ngatane/EWN

    Gauteng hospital welcomes 6 babies - all boys - on Christmas Day

    Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku was at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg on Christmas morning and met the newborn babies and their moms.

    957 days ago
  • Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloorus. Picture: Facebook.com

    Does SA have enough money to fix public healthcare?

    On Wednesday, Eyewitness News revealed how a pregnant woman was trapped inside a toilet at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus for more than an hour while in labour.

    999 days ago
  • The Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus. Picture: da-gpl.co.za

    Mom's nightmare labour ordeal highlights poor state of govt hospitals

    A pregnant woman has told Eyewitness News how she was trapped inside a toilet at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus for more than an hour while she was in labour.

    999 days ago
  • FILE: Health MEC Bandile Masuku said the rate of unnatural deaths as a result of violence remained a serious concern. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN.

    Gauteng Health Dept concerned by high number of violent deaths

    In the past financial year, over 4,800 deaths were recorded as a result of gunshots, stabbing and assault.

    1007 days ago
  • FILE: Former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku. Picture: @BandileMasuku/Twitter

    Gauteng Health Dept to ‘prioritise’ mental health, wellbeing of staff

    Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku said a programme would be launched next week aimed at improving the wellbeing of staff.

    1056 days ago
  • Picture: Pexels.

    DA urges Gauteng govt to terminate doctors' training programme in Cuba

    The DA's Jack Bloom said the program cost more than R2 million per person for a full course of six years. However, in South Africa, medical training cost less than R1 million for a shorter study period.

    1085 days ago
  • Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku visiting the Mamelodi Hospital to meet the hospital management following reports of 76-year-old Martha Marais being ill-treated. Picture: Gauteng Health Department/Facebook

    Health MEC Masuku: Baby kidnapping at Bara Hospital highlights holes in security

    The baby girl was snatched from her sleeping mother during visiting hours on Thursday by a woman who claimed to be the grandmother.

    1157 days ago
  • FILE: Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital entrance. Picture: Louise McAuliffe/EWN.

    UPDATE: Baby kidnapped at Chris Hani Hospital found alive

    It was believed the mother was sleeping next to her newborn when the child was snatched during visiting hours on Thursday.

    1158 days ago
  • Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku visiting the Mamelodi Hospital to meet the hospital management following reports of 76-year-old Martha Marais being ill-treated. Picture: Gauteng Health Department/Facebook

    SAHRC urges MEC Masuku to clean up health facilities

    Gauteng SAHRC manager Buang Jones said a number of health facilities had been isolated for receiving reports from the medical staff of appalling working conditions.

    1164 days ago
  • FILE: The ANC National Executive Committee begins its meeting in Gauteng on Saturday. Picture: www.anclive.co.za

    ANC NEC discussions to include EFF, ANCYL and Nigeria collapse

    The postponement of the national ANCYL conference next week is likely to feature prominently.

    2879 days ago
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    ANCYL accuses Kasrils of troublemaking

    Bandile Masuku says Kasrils is trying to derail the voting process for his own 'selfish interest'.

    3038 days ago
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