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2008 Media Releases

October

• Department of Health warns of fireworks danger
• Department of Health warns of fireworks danger
• Department of health says: "No moratorium on clinical posts"
• Preliminary results clears the patient of arena virus
• KwaZulu-Natal government departments respond to community calls for development in rural areas
• We cannot be taken for granted by foreign doctors

July

• Department of Health offering bursaries to the poor
• One life - two diseases - one response : TB is curable. Hlola manje!

May

• Commemorative Days in May

April

• Media statement on the 2008 budget policy presentation by KZN Heath MEC Neliswa Nkonyeni 29 April 2008 - Health for all through primary health care - a vehicle for attaining millennium development goals
• The KZN department of Health launches complaint against the scorpions
• Health officials to be arrested - a fishing expedition
• The Department of Health was made proud by Itshelejuba hospital (in Pongola) for winning the premiers service excellence awards - silver trophy

March

• eThekwini distirct of the department of health will launch a first ever forum to address mother to child health care involving civil society organs
• The MEC for Health to address the community of Nobamba on TB
• The MEC for Health to lead a call on the people of KwaZulu-Natal to stop TB
• Floods disrupt services at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital

February

• Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to lead the nation in a renewed healthy lifestyle campaign from Gamalakhe township on 22 February 2008
• Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to address the presidential task team on African Traditional Medicine during a policy Indaba in Pietermaritzburg on 23 February 2008 at 10h00
• Forty Japanese tourists hospitalised after bus accident
• MEC's Campaigns during February 2008

January

• MEC for health, Ms Neliswa Peggy Nkonyeni, takes the healthy lifestyle campaign and promotion of breast feeding to another level
• The Department of Health employed all available resources to save lives near Ulundi and Melmoth
   

2007 media releases

Media releases for 2006, 2005 and 2004