Tamar Kahn
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Cape Town, WC, South Africa
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Past articles by Tamar:
Health ombud says Rahima Moosa maternity hospital is filthy and unsafe
Investigation recommends action against CEO after finding expectant mothers sleeping on the floor, toilets overflowing and unheated wards → Read More
Ombud’s report confirms parlous state of Rahima Moosa hospital
Investigation recommends action against CEO after finding expectant mothers sleeping on the floor, toilets overflowing and unheated wards → Read More
Discovery still trying to negotiate an affordable price for cystic fibrosis treatment
The medical scheme has been negotiating with the US maker of Trikafta for more than three years → Read More
Health activists seek to join legal fight against costly cystic fibrosis treatment
Medicines Sans Frontieres and the Treatment Action Campaign to weigh in → Read More
Healthcare services disrupted as Nehawu wage strike continues
Unions at odds with reports and provincial health departments on violence, intimidation and compromised patient care → Read More
No ‘dark reason’ behind delays in parliament’s meeting with legal advisers on NHI bill
Several MPs have questioned why work on the bill has slowed and the DA health spokesperson is hoping the government is having second thoughts → Read More
State laboratory service moves to tackle toxicology test backlog
The NHLS will allocate further resources to speed up work and clear delays running into years → Read More
Cape Town again tops Discovery Vitality’s healthy city list
Cape Town came first for healthy food purchases, while Joburg was top of the pile for exercise → Read More
SA needs to do more to close its HIV/Aids treatment gap, says US global Aids envoy
About 94% of people living with HIV in SA know their status but too few receive treatment → Read More
School budgets squeezed as tertiary education students are shielded from inflation
Consolidated government expenditure on basic education rises from a revised estimate of R302bn in 2022/2023 to R309bn in 2023/2024 → Read More
Treasury warns of fiscal risk of unfunded social welfare spending
The Treasury has once again left the size of the SRD grant unchanged, which means inflation continues to erode its purchasing power → Read More
Health sector offered little relief as budget shrinks in real terms
Extra money for health care announced by finance minister Enoch Godongwana is insufficient to counter the effect of cuts announced in 2021 → Read More
Department of health on the carpet over citizens’ Covid-19 data
Watchdog refers it to its enforcement committee after its failure to report on destroying what it had collected → Read More
Vaping industry urges Treasury to delay excise tax on its products
E-cigarettes body warns the planned duty will result in a dramatic drop in sales and could cost jobs → Read More
Medical schemes regulator moves to place Medipos under provisional curatorship
Scheme said to be financially unviable due to the SA Post Office’s repeated failure to pay contributions for its employees → Read More
Life Healthcare shares soar on news of interest in its imaging business
Private hospital group clarifies that several unsolicited offers have been made for UK-based Alliance Medical Group → Read More
Power cuts threaten delivery of welfare grants
Electricity crisis could cut state’s capacity to administer grants by as much as 20% → Read More
Aspen Pharmacare aims to be off power grid in 18 months
SA’s biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer plans to buy electricity from third party suppliers that generate it from waste plastic → Read More
Test case frees Eastern Cape from lump sum payouts for medical negligence
The court judgment is expected to result in a sharp reduction in payouts → Read More
Eskom wants to buy from companies generating surplus power
If Eskom’s bid is successful, it has the potential to lessen load-shedding by one stage → Read More