10-March-2008
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Department to conduct health literacy programmes on healthy lifestyles in the province |
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Health MEC Mrs Nomonde Rasmeni has committed her department to embark on a healthy lifestyle literacy programme in the province by screening communities for non communicable diseases.
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21-February-2008
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Health mec challenges men to join campaign to prevent sti’s & unwanted pregnancies |
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SOUTH AFRICA, ZEERUST - North West health MEC Nomonde Rasmeni has challenged men in the province to join the campaign of preventing sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies by encouraging safe sex through proper use of condoms.
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19-February-2008
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Health care workers embark on door to door visits |
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North West department of health care workers throughout the province from the 10th to 16th of this month embarked on a myriad of door to door visits in communities to accentuate messages aimed at reigniting the importance of using condoms to avoid sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies.
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11-February-2008
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Department disputes claims of paying young people to become prostitutes |
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The North West department of health disputes allegations that its money was used to run a workshop which three young women were taught how to become prostitutes
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5-February-2008
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Private health sector invited to provide costing information |
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The Department of Health published in the Government Gazette today an invitation to private healthcare providers, agencies and establishments to provide information relating to the pricing of health services and business practices
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10-November-2008
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Employment created for the visually impaired |
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About 40 young people between the ages of 18 and 35-years from all regions in the North West province will be trained with necessary advocacy and community development skills to become orientation and mobility instructors.....
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29-October-2008
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Hospitals investigation reveal no records of alleged victims of a man driving luxury vehicle |
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The North West Department of Health would like to put it on record that it has no records of any patients in its facilities with symptoms of the alleged disease carried by a “man” driving luxury vehicle. This follows talks doing the round about in the Province that victims of the “man” are at our facilities and can be visited with a certain amount of money...
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31-October-2008
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Emergency care technicians (ect) learners are already making a difference! |
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Two paramedic Learners currently on Emergency Care Technician (ECT) course in the North-West province, have saved a life of a young boy at Grace Mokgomo clinic in Kanana Township near Orkney on 13 October 2008....
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25-September-2008
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North west health in course with south african-cuban medical programme |
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Working towards addressing the national shortage of doctors, the Department of Health in the North West Province has since 1998 been sending young people from disadvantaged communities to Cuba to study medicine through the South African-Cuban Medical Programme. Thus far, the programme has produced 37 Medical Graduates with ten currently serving in the provincial health institutions while 27 are still on an internship programme in rural health facilities.
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30-September-2008
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Government to institutionalize african traditional medicine |
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African Traditional Medicine (ATM) has over the years sustained health care service in the urban and rural areas, despite the marginalization by the laboratory tested medicine. This will soon become a thing of the past once a draft policy on institutionalization of African traditional Medicine into the healthcare system which is currently being circulated for inputs gets endorsed by the National Department of Health.
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3-October-2008
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Road accident fund satellite offices available in north west hospitals |
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Road Accident Fund (RAF) has opened three satellite offices in provincial hospitals of the North-West. The offices are situated in Klerksdorp/ Tshepong Complex, Mafikeng/ Bophelong Complex and Job Shimankana Tabane Hospital formerly known as Rustenburg Hospital.
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11-September-2008
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Mec rasmeni launch an ambitious pregnancy resolution campaign |
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North West Health MEC, Nomonde Rasmeni, launched an ambitious pregnancy resolution campaign on September 11, 2008 in Mafikeng. The main aim of the campaign is to discourage women from seeking backstreet abortions and encourage them to utilize designated health facilities of the North West Provincial Department of Health....
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19-August-2008
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National minister and nw health mec commemorate women’s month in tlakgameng |
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It was business unusual at Tlakgameng Village in Vryburg as North West Health MEC Mrs Nomonde Rasmeni welcomed the national health Minister Dr Manto Tshabala-Msimang to commemorate women’s month espoused on the theme of “Business Unusual- Encouraging Men and Women Working Together in Choosing a Healthy Lifestyle”......
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21-July-2008
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Department strengthens the management of tb control programme in the province |
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In its effort to combat the spread of Tuberculosis (TB) in the province, the North-West Department of health has purchased 28 vehicles intended to address the current low TB cure rate caused by TB patients who continue to default treatment.
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7-August-2008
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Mec to open five clinics in mafikeng sub-district and two health centres in rustenburg |
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In a quest to deliver basic health care services to the people of the North West Province, the MEC for Health, Nomonde Rasmeni will officially open five clinics in the Mafikeng sub district and two health centres in Rustenburg.
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