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In a bid to address mental healthcare in the Eastern Cape Health Department, the ministry has announced that a budget of R10 million has been set aside to recruit health practitioners. “The plan includes recruitment of mental healthcare practitioners and expanding scope of mental health service providers to include community based mental health care programme.

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says his department will soon issue a contract under the National Health Insurance (NHI) to clear the backlog of mental health patients awaiting treatment. “We will be issuing a contract under NHI projects because NHI is not yet a law but it has got projects to hire 51 psychiatrists in the private

BRICS Countries have committed to work together in fighting TB. This as three of its member countries are among the ones with the highest number of new infections in the World. Speaking at the BRICS TB Research Network meeting which took place Friday 29 June 2018 in Johannesburg; South Africa, Precious Matsoso who is the

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President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa and the United Kingdom have identified key sectors for investment aimed at boostingeconomic growth and development. The President on Tuesday hosted UK Prime Minister Theresa May at Tuynhuys in Cape Town. May is in the country on a working visit. Accompanied by Ministers and a delegation of 29 business executives,