The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Nadya Swart 
With the launch of the BizNews health section, we would like to know where our community stands with respect to certain key health issues, many of which are touched on in this article.
Dr Jeanne-Marie Malan says that long Covid is “very real” and has seen countless patients suffering from prolonged fatigue and ‘brain fog’.
Two recent US verdicts on healthcare workers charged with murdering patients have highlighted the untenable legal situation of their South Africa counterparts.
SA is scaling back its Covid-19 vaccination drive and may have to destroy doses because of a lack of demand from citizens as the country heads into a fifth wave of infections.
A combination of Eskom power outages and BEE-impacted procurement rules is putting patients in deep rural hospitals at heightened risk.
When simple fact checking is not possible, it seems we all but ignore the actual statement, relying more on behavioural cues that seem to suggest lies.
South Africa and Africa’s educational level and system lends itself to a renewable energy-powered electrical system.
Nicholas Woode-Smith states NHI in South Africa is “unaffordable, something our doctors really don’t want to happen and fundamentally flawed”.
Onne Vegter highlights the absurdity of the new health regulations and asserts that they are “unscientific, and won’t make a meaningful difference”.
South African citizens woke up to a different reality this morning after government gazetted the Draft Health Regulations under the wire at 11pm last night.