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Katja Hamilton
Food poisoning crisis hits Gauteng's most vulnerable

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Source: 123RF
[Katja Hamilton] Gauteng officials intensify food safety education after 207 child food poisoning cases, focusing on townships, hostels, and informal settlements...

Posted 15 days ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Mpox: No global lockdowns, emphasis on increased education, vigilance, airport screening and monitoring

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
[Katja Hamilton] Concerns about global lockdowns similar to Covid-19 have emerged following the WHO's PHEIC declaration for mpox. The outbreak, particularly in the DRC, involves a new strain and requires urgent containment efforts...

Posted 25 days ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Source: 123RF
Source: 123RF
[Katja Hamilton] The United Nations Environment Assembly focused on One Health, linking human-, animal-, and environmental health, urging global collaboration amid crises...

Posted 6 months ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
South Korea: Junior doctors strike amid concerns over low doctor-to-patient ratio

Source: 123RF/svershinsky
Source: 123RF/svershinsky
[Katja Hamilton] South Korea plans to suspend licenses of striking junior doctors amid protests over medical training reforms, escalating tensions over healthcare...

Posted 6 months ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
#WEF24: Burden of disease is escalating in Gaza

Source: Unicef.
Source: Unicef.
[Katja Hamilton] Gaza's children face a catastrophic situation, unsafe everywhere. Unicef's Kitty van der Heijden reveals death, disease, and deprivation, with a dire water scarcity in the region and unsanitary conditions escalating...

Posted 8 months ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
SA v. Israel: Accusations spotlight "danger for the historically protected position of healthcare workers" worldwide

Source: Reuters.
Source: Reuters.
[Katja Hamilton] Protesters at the International Court of Justice condemn Israel's alleged genocide in Gaza, accusing breaches of international rules, endangering healthcare, with a rising death toll and health crisis...

Posted 8 months ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Violence escalates amid ongoing Cape Metropole taxi strike, affecting emergency response

Source: Twitter/@i_likebrandon
Source: Twitter/@i_likebrandon
[Katja Hamilton] Taxi strike violence escalates, damaging health centre in Cape Metropole. Services disrupted, red zones declared...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

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[Katja Hamilton] The mRNA technology transfer programme, comprising a consortium of biomanufacturing partners from 15 countries, saw the launch of its technology transfer hub in Cape Town this week, and the kick off of discussions on the intellectual-property issues of mRNA technologies linked to HIV and tuberculosis....

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
SA measles outbreak of concern, NICD warns as case surge hits 80% worldwide

Source: DynaMedex.
Source: DynaMedex.
[Katja Hamilton] Our country's measles outbreak is raising concerns as it has been attributed to consistent lower-than-optimal vaccine coverage of routine measles 1 and 2 doses. Covid-19 further interrupted childhood vaccinations in SA...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Is Big Tobacco misleading consumers and policymakers on heated tobacco products?

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[Katja Hamilton] The tobacco industry has co-opted the definition of tobacco harm reduction in order to sell heated tobacco products, which it claims are less harmful than cigarettes. Tobacco control expert, Sophie Braznell unpacks the industry's claims and keeps score...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Will the National State of Disaster be renewed at the eleventh hour?

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[Katja Hamilton] Premier Alan Winde has been calling for transparency on the President's decision-making processes around the National State of Disaster...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Katja Hamilton
Covid-19 targets kidneys, study finds...

[Katja Hamilton] Covid-19 does not only target the lungs, the kidneys are just as vulnerable, and it's raising alarm bells...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Danette Breitenbach
Technology: healthcare enabler or disrupter?

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Source: © pandpstock001 123rf
[Danette Breitenbach] To solve the problems in healthcare in South Africa, while technology is an enabler, the key lies in recognising the needs of our market...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Technology and the three pillars of healthcare

Vukani Mngxati, managing director for healthcare and public sector practice, Accenture South Africa
Vukani Mngxati, managing director for healthcare and public sector practice, Accenture South Africa
[Vukani Mngxati] Global healthcare leaders have learned that the three pivotal pillars of healthcare - accessibility, effectiveness and affordability - all have information technology at their core....

Posted 6 years ago | Like
Maroefah Smith
Maroefah Smith
[Public Health] 

Doctor Liana Roodt found her calling in changing the lives of breast cancer patients. After witnessing the saddening, stretched out and complicated hoops cancer patients in the public health sector had to jump through for treatment, Dr Roodt felt that something needed to be done to help these patients. This is when she founded the NGO Project Flamingo as a means to alleviate the waiting time and trauma of seeking cancer treatment in the public health sector. She aims to not only reduce the surgical waiting time for patients but also offer them psychological support during the treatment process.

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Nicci Botha
#bhf2019conference: Healthcare as a key driver for economic growth

Source image: Getty/Gallo
Source image: Getty/Gallo
[Nicci Botha] Healthcare is often viewed as just a cost that South Africa carries. But it is in fact a key driver of economic activity on a number of fronts...

Posted 5 years ago | Like
Nicci Botha
Is Motsoaledi fiddling while healthcare is burning?

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo: South Africa Today
Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo: South Africa Today
[Nicci Botha] Despite the Life Esidimeni tragedy, non-existent oncology services, striking healthcare workers and a damning quality report...

Posted 6 years ago | Like
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