Hospital catch-22: We can t buy the machines unless we can employ radiographers!
5 May 2021 8:23 PM Life Healthcare
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Hospital groups aren t allowed to employ radiographers. Life Healthcare is fighting to have this changed, for important reasons.
Why are hospital groups not allowed to hire their own radiographers?
Medical practitioners can be hired only with the permission of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), explains âPeter Wharton-Hood (Group Chief Executive of âLife Healthcare).
Life Healthcare made a formal application two years ago for permission to employ radiographers in South Africa, as it does in the UK.
The application is set to be heard this week.
Oral health is critical to people’s overall health, but a dire shortage of oral health practitioners in the public health sector means that many people are not getting the oral healthcare services they need.
Some dental practitioners such as Dr Bulela Vava says these chronic shortages, especially in provinces like the Eastern Cape, force dentists in the public health system to operate as “dental butcheries as opposed to oral healthcare centres”.Vava is the founder and national chairperson of the Public Oral Health Forum.
Oral healthcare is integrated into the primary health care package provided in the public health sector. As the rural and poor province that it is, the focus of the Eastern Cape should be on prevention, but it does not have more than 50 oral hygienists, says Vava. The Eastern Cape health sector is under immense pressure when it comes to oral and dental healthcare.
Foreign doctors targeted by fake âHawksâ official threatening to have them arrested, struck off the roll
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Johannesburg - A man purporting to be a Hawks official is allegedly approaching foreign doctors, accusing them of crimes and demanding they pay him so they donât get arrested and struck off the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) roll.
The man also created a fake letter to make the scam look real and is said to have approached three doctors â two in Gauteng and one in the Eastern Cape.
The HPCSA has called on other doctors who fell victim to the man to get in touch with them.
The South African Medical Association has warned that the amendment of Section 73, of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Bill, will have a catastrophic impact on injured workers and medical staff who provide their treatment.
The NPA will is set to decide on dates for the inquest
There is also no word on the Life Esidimeni monument tat was supposed to be built
The case against former Gauteng health Head of Department, Dr Tiego Selebano, has once again been postponed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).
Selebano was supposed to make an appearance before the statuary body s preliminary committee for his role in the Life Esidmeni tragedy last week. The HPCSA says that new hearing dates still need to be confirmed.
It is not the first time the body has postponed Selebano s hearing. The HPCSA previously stated that Selebano s inquiry would take place in mid-September 2019.