Confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at the Addo Elephant National Park has triggered urgent calls for unified intervention across SA's conservation and agricultural sectors. Two kudu have now tested positive, triggering fears the…
The Eastern Cape Liquor Board has rung alarms over how the prevalent manufacturing and selling of fake and illegal alcohol has continued to be a health risk for the public. This comes as members of the Qonce Crime Prevention Unit were at…
A pioneering rural healthcare project outside Mthatha using quad bikes and drones to deliver chronic medication serves as an example to communities across the Eastern Cape.
In rural Bhaziya near Mthatha, an innovative healthcare project is using quad bikes and overhead drone surveillance to deliver chronic medication directly to patients' homes, sparing vulnerable villagers exhausting 40km treks to the clinic.
Kenya has confirmed its first-ever Ebola death following the demise of a citizen who returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health authorities to track contacts and enforce quarantine measures.
A multimillion-rand medical negligence payout at Mthatha General Hospital highlights the painful balance between compensating victims and protecting South Africa's strained public healthcare system.
The Eastern Cape health department is seeking to negotiate payment terms after the Bhisho High Court ordered it to pay over R15m to a child left disabled during birth at Mthatha General Hospital.
Investigations into the recent surge of flying insects across Buffalo City have identified them as non-biting midges from the Sciaridae family, posing no health threat to residents as numbers begin to subside.
