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The Government of KwaZulu-Natal (IsiZulu: uHulumeni waKwaZulu-Natal) is the subnational government of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The politics of the province take place in the framework of a constitutional monarchy and liberal multi-party parliamentary democracy within a constitutional republic whereby the King of the Zulu Nation is the ceremonial figurehead of an ...
Harry Gwala Regional Hospital (formerly Edendale Hospital), established in 1954, is a 1,275-[1] bed regional and district hospital in Edendale near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, operated by the KZN Department of Health. [2]
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is the epicentre of the HIV epidemic globally, with the highest infection rate of any region in the world. [7] The management of children infected and exposed to HIV requires chronic care at a vastly improved quality and coverage than what is currently available.
The Department of Health is the executive department of the national government that is assigned to oversee healthcare in South Africa, reporting to the Minister of Health. The Office for Health Standards and Compliance was established in 2014.
Following the end of the Border War, in the early 1990s, it implemented several retrenchment measures.It consolidated all quartermaster stores in the Cape Town and Bloemfontein areas, relocated its training center from Potchefstroom to Pretoria, closed several medical supply depots, consolidated computer centers and systems, rationalized procedures for procuring medicine and medical equipment ...
In 2013, it was estimated that vacancy rates for doctors were 56% and for nurses 46%. Half the population lives in rural areas, but only 3% of newly qualified doctors take jobs there. All medical training takes place in the public sector but 70% of doctors go into the private sector. 10% of medical staff are qualified in other countries.
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa that is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into forty-three local municipalities.
Dhlomo became provincial executive member in KwaZulu-Natal and became the MEC of health in 2009, [1] and faced such criticism for his handling of the portfolio throughout his term that the Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (HOSPERSA) wanted Dhlomo to be sacked for presiding "over a department that is perpetually in ...