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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

The Democratic Alliance in Kwa Zulu-Natal has released a statement calling on all the oncologists who are able to return to the Provincial Health Department’s workforce to do so. The call follows the resumption of oncology services at Addington hospital. In February 2016 the DA wrote to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) complaining

President Cyril Ramaphosa says in the next three months government will launch a massive cancer campaign similar to the HIV counselling and testing campaign. The campaign will involve the private sector as government aims to mobilise all resources to fight the scourge of cancer. The President said this when he tabled his State of the