Health & Safety

Use of health care services double
The use of health care services has almost doubled over the past eight years with 101 million visits to clinics in the 2006/07 financial year, says Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.

Proposed grants for infants on their first month
New born children, who qualify for child support grants, may soon receive the government grant, from the first month of their birth, says Minister of Social Development, Dr Zola Skweyiya.

Discipline in Schools
This document provides information on school codes of conduct, corporal punishment, alternative punishments, suspension and expulsion.

Cape Town wraps up child safety project
The Cape Town Metropolitan Police have concluded a social crime prevention project which targeted over 10 000 children across the province.

Allen Carr, CANSA to help smokers quit
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has officially endorsed the Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking method, which can help smokers countrywide to give up smoking permanently.

TB control efforts progress slowly - WHO
Worldwide efforts to confront tuberculosis (TB) are making progress, but too slowly, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Cape Town teens educated on air quality
The Youth Environmental School in Cape Town is to help raise awareness surrounding the quality of the air in the city among high school pupils. The Air Quality Awareness Programme is a partnership initiative between the school and the City's Health, Air Quality, Radiation and Air Pollution Control unit.

Breast-feeding is still the best
The promotion of breast-feeding is one of global importance as thousands of infants are dying worldwide, succumbing to infection and malnutrition, due to not being breastfed, writes Siboniso Ntuli.