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Deaths of mentally ill patients in Gauteng: Health Ombud report and Minister's response; with Deputy Minister present
15 Feb 2017
Document outstanding: Overview of Transferred Psychiatric patients from Life Esidimeni Centre to various NGOs in Gauteng
The Minister of Health introduced the Health Ombud who had been requested to investigate the 94+ mentally ill patients who died between 23 March and 19 Dec 2016 in Gauteng. The Minister had also ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation of Sugar Sweetened Beverages: public hearings
14 Feb 2017
Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) said that in Tembisa, a township in Johannesburg, it was easy to access sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) where advertising for SSBs was at every corner. It could no longer be ignored what multinationals were doing. Almost all schools had their names written on Coca Cola SA billboards; ...
The National Department of Health presented to the Portfolio Committee. According to the Chairperson, the Health Ombudsman released a report related to the death of mentally-ill patients. The Chairperson said that the report was very disturbing. Last year 36 mentally-ill patients were reported to have died in various NGO facilities. ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation of Sugar Sweetened Beverages: public hearings
31 Jan 2017
The Department of Health told a joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Health and Standing Committee Finance that 38 million people die due to non-communicable diseases. 28 million deaths occur in low and middle income countries. 16 million people die before the age of 70. Cardiovascular diseases are the ...
Health
Nursing Strategy: Chief Nursing Officer progress report; Nigerian delegation meeting
30 Nov 2016
The first part of the meeting was an interaction between a delegation of the Nigerian Parliament led by Senator Olarenwaju Tejuosho, Chairman of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Health. It was explained that the Nigerian Assembly is divided into a Senate (the upper house) and House of Representatives, and the ...
Appointment to the Commission for Gender Equality
Election of the Chairperson
23 Nov 2016
The Committee met to elect the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Filling of Vacancies for Gender Equality. The Committee decided to meet the following week to adopt its programme.
Health
Medical Innovation Bill: Department of Health input
23 Nov 2016
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by the Department of Health on the Medical Innovation Bill of 2014. This Bill, which originated from the private Member's Bill by the late Dr Oriano-Ambrosini, provides for innovation in medical treatment, legalising the use of cannabinoids for medical purposes and legalising commercial and industrial ...
Health
Public health facilities inspections: Public Service Commission briefing
9 Nov 2016
The Public Service Commission (PSC) briefed the Committee on the outcome of its inspection to selected health facilities. The aim of the PSC inspection is to assess the quality of services to the public, the state of facilities and the conditions at service sites. The main objective of the inspection ...
Health
Health Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
25 Oct 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to discuss the draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report that had been drafted for the Department of Health. The bulk of the meeting was mostly correcting grammatical errors which were made on the draft report. Members ...
Health
Department of Health & Office of Health Standards Compliance on their 2015/16 Annual Report, with Minister present
13 Oct 2016
The Office Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) and the Department of Health presented their Annual Reports. Some of the points discussed are as follows:
The OHSC was congratulated for receiving an unqualified audit opinion and Members were proud of the Office and its performance, given that it is new. Committee members ...