Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital patient, Daurelle Crotz, of Bellville, can breathe easy once more, thanks to a R80 000 donation by the pupils of Springfield Convent School in Wynberg to the Friends of the Children's Hospital Association (... Read More
The Neurosurgical High Care area at Groote Schuur Hospital has been moved to ward D13. High Care provides service for patients with single organ failure who require intensive monitoring. Read More
Western Cape Minister of Health, Theuns Botha, will visit the construction site of the Mitchell's Plain Hospital today to ascertain for himself the progress. Information on the impact assessment study will also be provided. Read More
On Friday 18 June 2010 at 15h30 Prince William and Prince Harry visited the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The Hospital is the only specialist hospital in southern Africa dedicated entirely to children. Read More
A brand new Community Day Centre offering extensive primary health care services to Malmesbury and its surrounding areas will soon be built in West Bank, Malmesbury. Read More
With an indigent population of about four (4) million in Cape Town, it is estimated that thirty thousand (30 000) people are blind of which twenty three thousand (23 000) blind cases could have been prevented, because the origin of their blindness... Read More
FiFA 2010 Fever at Brewelskloof Hospital Read More
With the FIFA World Cup™, the Department of Health is adjusting visiting hours and some operational functions at New Somerset Hospital (NSH), to accommodate international visitors and the public on Cape Town match days only. Read More
Wally 107, the big, blue telephone handset mascot for the City of Cape Town's emergency services, entertained patients, parents and staff at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital on International Children's Day, June 1, 2010. Read More
The Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, today (Wednesday, 26 May 2010) launched the provincial HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign at the Michael Mapongwana Community Health Centre in Khayelitsha. Read More
This week, with the continuation of the mass polio immunisation campaign at schools and crèches, the Western Cape is capitalising on the opportunity and added the administration of vitamin A drops and de-worming tablets to its health services regime. Read More
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, The Western Cape Department of Health, Premier Helen Zille and the Provincial MEC for Health Theuns Botha, will officially launch the HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign at Michael Mapongwana Community Health Centre... Read More
The boredom of inactivity, feelings of isolation and the physical and emotional pain felt by children undergoing treatment at the George Hospital, is set to change today with the launch of the Tracy Fun Centre, a mobile audio-visual trolley that... Read More
On Thursday 20 May 2010, the crèche at Groote Schuur Hospital will be having a concert in support of the World Cup that is 21 days away. Read More
Since declaring an outbreak of Measles and Polio in the Western Cape on 22 February, the Department of Health has immunised more than one point two (1.2) million children at health facilities across the Western Cape. Read More
Artists brought the World Cup to patients ahead of the kick off of the first game when they, in conjunction with 2010 Fine Art, painted a soccer-themed montage for the hospital. Read More
The Nurses Support Group of Lentegeur Hospital plans to host a Nurses Day Celebration to honour the committed and excellent work done by nurses at the hospital. Read More
That seven percent (7%) of children in South Africa, according to a Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) report do not survive to their fifth birthday, is horrific and completely unacceptable. Read More
In a symbolic ceremony to commemorate the construction of a separate HIV TB Clinic at Delfts Community Health Centre, the Western Cape Minister of Health, Theuns Botha, planted a tree outside the centre today. Read More
Master of Ceremonies, Mr. Tendani Mabuda Guest speaker, Prof Duma Head of Health, Prof. Househam Nurses from this province Read More