2024 Media Releases

November

• 05 November 2024 KZN Health provides storm damage update over the past two days
• 05 November 2024 Patients unharmed as PPT bus catches fire

October

• 24 October 2024 KZN Health provides updates on Clairwood fire and two EMS accidents
• 22 October 2024 KZN MEC for Health briefs KZN Health Portfolio Committee on Departmental Finances
• 17 October 2024 KZN Health MEC call on communities to protect EMS personnel as world commemorates World Emergency Medical Services Day
• 13 October 2024 KZN Health MEC's big mental health awareness push
• 07 October 2024 KZN Health MEC condemns incident where EMS Ambulance was pelted with stones in King Cetshwayo District

September

• 22 September 2024 KZN Health MEC welcomes increased male interest in nursing profession; says: "More male nurses means better health prospects for men."

August

• 16 August 2024 KZN Health MEC condemns alleged assault of Empangeni Clinic staffer, allegedly by psych patient
• 04 August 2024 There's nothing 'unfashionable' or 'backward' about breastfeeding

May

• 14 May 2024 Renaming of King Edward VIII Hospital

April

• 30 April 2024 Thousands of people to benefit from new R69,5m Mpolweni Clinic
• 28 April 2024 New "Zikhala Kanjani" national prevention strategy to place youth at the centre of the fight against teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and STIs
• 23 April 2024 KZN Health Statement in response to the KwaMashu CHC incident
• 09 April 2024 KZN Dept of Health; Unemployed Doctors In Fruitful Engagement:
• 03 April 2024 Hope for aggrieved unemployed doctors: "Please go home, wait for the imminent advertisement of posts and apply"

March

• 02 March 2024 Confirmed cases of pink eye in eThekwini: good personal hygiene is key; do is seeking medical treatment, says KZN Health MEC, Ms Nomagugu Simelane

February

• 26 February KZN, Mpumalanga health MECs visit horror bus crash survivors at Vryheid hospital
• 02 February "Please love us back", pleads KZN Health MEC to those who've stopped taking their medication

January

• 14 January KZN Health MEC urges citizens to start the year on a clean slate by getting a health check-up, and for healthcare staff to be welcoming