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The appointment of Dr Nthabiseng Makgana as the CEO of Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital has raised concerns by workers and the HR department that she lacks the necessary senior management level experience or MBA qualifications, reports Daily Maverick. She has only three years’ management experience, not the requisite eight,… Read more »

The president of the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is digging in his heels and questioning the council’s authority to haul him before a disciplinary inquiry for alleged financial irregularities. The inquiry was scheduled for 29 April but only started on 30 April because one of the committee members… Read more »

Gauteng Health’s MEC has admitted Tembisa Hospital is struggling to provide services to patients, thanks to 104 vacancies and a critical lack of equipment, but said a recruitment drive was under way and it was “working around the clock” to fill crucial posts. MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko said the facility was… Read more »

The Treatment Action Campaign is urging national health clinics to supply HIV patients with ARV medication supplies for six months, instead of the current one to three months, saying the existing strategy contributed to erratic and irregular dosage regimes. To emphasise its call, members of the TAC protested at some… Read more »

The National Council Against Smoking (NCAS) has lodged an objection, with more than 50 signatories, with the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) over tobacco giant Phillip Morris International’s (PMI) sponsorship of medical education for doctors. All registered healthcare professionals are required to stay up to date by completing Continuing… Read more »

A child has died in Pfizer’s phase 2 study of its gene therapy candidate for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the rare genetic disorder that primarily affects boys, according to a patient advocacy group. On 7 May, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy published a letter it received from Pfizer announcing the patient’s death in the… Read more »

More than 200 people with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly after a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration announced last week. Version 2.7 of the t:connect Apple iOS app – used with the t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ –… Read more »

To grow SA’s prospects in the medical technology (medtech) sector, the Department of Trade, Industry & Competition (DTIC) has unveiled a master plan aimed at expanding local production, reducing the dependence on imports, and creating jobs. The pandemic illustrated the pitfalls of the country’s excessive reliance on imports, the inadequate… Read more »

Gauteng authorities have confirmed a case of mpox at Ahmed Kathrada Hospital in Lenasia after a 35-year-old local man tested positive for the disease, reports The Citizen. The patient, who lives in Savanna City just outside De Deur, apparently has no history of travel. This fresh case is the sixth… Read more »

For people with end-stage chronic kidney disease in South Africa, deceased donor organ transplant has, until now, been seen as the only potential lifeline, but now ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation has increased survival chances. In the SA Medical Journal, nephrologist Zunaid Barday writes that ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation gives patients with chronic… Read more »