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Cuban COVID-19 drug import investigations continue

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The Office of the Auditor-General and the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) are to be given “space” to better deal with the apparent...

SG admits “wrongs committed” with Cuban COVID-19 drug import

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Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) heard “wrongs were committed” during the acquisition of a Cuban drug said to assist in...

More questions than answers on Cuban COVID-19 drug

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The apparent illegal importing of a Cuban drug to strengthen soldiers’ resistance to COVID-19 came – unsatisfactorily – under the Parliamentary oversight microscope on...

Military hospital management and operation should be a provincial competency –...

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The question of doing away with components of the non-combat service of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has been raised from time to...

Surgeon General visiting Eastern Cape as part of inspection tour

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Lieutenant General Zola Dabula, Surgeon General of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), visits Eastern Cape military health institutions today, 16 February, following...

Top military medical personnel “invited” to explain Heberon acquisition

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Noting “concern” about the acquisition of medication not approved for use in South Africa by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), Cyril Xaba, chair...

SANDF acquisition of non-approved Cuban COVID-19 drug draws more criticism

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The decision to import Cuban medication to provide heightened protection against COVID-19 for soldiers at a cost in excess of R200 million, apparently contradicting...

DA slams Military Command Council over Cuban COVID-19 drug

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The “arrogant attitude” adopted by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), particularly its top decision-making body the Military Command Council (MCC), regarding acquisition of...

SAMHS integral to Op Notlela

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With the first anniversary of South Africa’s COVID-19-induced national state of disaster looming, it should be remembered the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), in...

New SA Military Health Service Senior Chief Warrant Officer

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Senior Chief Warrant Officer (SCWO) Mzolisi Miselo is the new man at the helm of the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) in all its...

1 Mil refurbishment shows what can be done – Marais

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Renovations and refurbishment to part of the national defence force’s flagship military medical unit – 1 Military Hospital – prove “if the will is...

SAMHS Op Notlela numbers revealed

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The coronavirus pandemic saw the single largest deployment of military personnel in democratic South Africa’s existence to date. By far the majority of those deployed,...

1 Mil intensive care ward up and running

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Going against the grain of much long-running and still unfinished work at the national defence force’s flagship medical facility is the upgrade of the...

SAMHS general turns container into field hospital module

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Innovation in military medical healthcare against a background of financial austerity led a senior SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) officer to develop a containerised...

Former Surgeon General dies

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Former SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) Surgeon General and SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief of Staff, Dr Vejay Ramlakan, died yesterday (Thursday, 27...

SANDF continues to operate under COVID-19’s new normal

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COVID-19, the disease that is claiming the lives of just under two percent of those infected in South Africa, is shutting down businesses and...

Soldiers assist with COVID-19 screening, second SAHMS deployment readying for Eastern...

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Soldiers are not only wielding assault rifles in support of police and other law enforcement agencies – they also brandish digital thermometers, aiding healthcare...

United States donates more face masks to the SAMHS

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The United States has donated 11 000 plastic face masks to the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) to assist the country’s efforts to...

Sandu also seeking SANDF coronavirus testing info

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Lieutenant General Zola Dabula, SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Surgeon General and the man in overall charge of the military medical contribution to the...

US donates protective masks to the SA Military Health Service

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The U.S. Embassy in South Africa, through its Office of Defense Cooperation, has provided 12 400 protective masks to the South African Military Health...

SAMHS launches mass coronavirus screening and testing campaign

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The SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) launched a mass COVID-19 coronavirus screening and testing campaign for the military community as part of measures to...

SAMHS screening defence personnel for coronavirus

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There is no mass testing for coronavirus of airmen, military medics, sailors and soldiers. The medical service is, however, screening and following up with...

Military medics seeking volunteers for coronavirus response

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The medical component of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) wants volunteers – urgently – to boost the number of healthcare operatives in the...

SAMHS doctors keeping busy in the DRC

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At the Composite Helicopter Unit (CHU) in Goma, DRC, is a South African Military Health Services (SAMHS) level one hospital. DefenceWeb had the opportunity to...

SAMHS doctors treating civilians and soldiers in harsh conditions in the...

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The South African Medical Health Service (SAMHS) personnel deployed to Goma in the Domcratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being kept relatively busy treating...

SAMHS specialist integral to Marion island evacuation

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A skillset residing in the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) was put to good use during long distance consultations between South Africa and Marion...

SAHMS standing by to aid national coronavirus prevention operation

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The SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) is the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) service on alert and ready to assist with national attempts to...

Charge against headscarf wearing major withdrawn

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Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is “satisfied” following withdrawal of a case brought against a SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) major for...

SANDF headscarf matter postponed to January

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SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) officer Fatima Isaacs will appear in court in January 2020 after being charged for wearing a hijab while in...

Change of command parade for South African Military Health Services

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On 14 November at the Pretoria Military Sports Club, the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) held a change of command parade for the...

SANDF monitoring impact of National Health Insurance

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The senior command structure of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), specifically those tasked with military healthcare, will be keeping a weather eye on...

About turn on hijab policy by the SANDF

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Muslims in the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) may in future be allowed to wear the hijab. This is clarified in a statement issued by...

Court orders discharged SAMHS trainee doctors be reinstated

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The Pretoria High Court has ordered the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to reinstate 35 soldiers who were dismissed for allegedly deserting whilst...

Religious headscarf wearing SAMHS major set for disciplinary hearing

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A spokesman for the national defence force points out there is only one culture – a military one - in the South African National...

Mamba could be used by SAMHS as a combat ambulance

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The South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) is looking at using the Mamba armoured personnel carrier (APC) as a combat ambulance, with a prototype...

North West thanks military medics

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Earlier this month South Africa’s military medics were on the receiving end of a heartfelt thank you from the North West provincial Department of...

Sandu to take up cudgels on behalf of discharged SAMHS trainee...

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Indications are the legal services division of the national defence force can ready itself for another court battle with the SA National Defence Union...

Discharged SANDF medics in Cuba were not attending course classes

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The 35 medics administratively discharged from the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) after being absent without official leave (AWOL) from a Cuban training facility...

SAMHS executed two million health care activities last year

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The South African Military Health Service carried out over two million health care activities in the previous financial year as part of its mandate...

Military Health Service fills breach in North West healthcare

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"Assisting in times of disaster" is a task the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) is constitutionally mandated to execute and the most...

SANDF to assist North West with medical care after strike

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The South African Military Heath Service (SAMHS) will move into the North West province to reinforce medical care at its provincial hospital...

The Presidential Medical Unit by the numbers

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The mid-year release and subsequent withdrawal of a book on the final days of former president Nelson Mandela's life put the spotlight...

Ramlakan could be in more hot water over Mandela book

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Retired Lieutenant General Vejay Ramlakan, who headed the SA Military Health Services team that cared for former President Nelson Mandela, may face...

Military nursing ranks boosted by 70 plus

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A graduation ceremony this month in Unisa's ZK Matthews Hall added more than 70 qualified nurses of both sexes to those already...

SA Military Health Service not well

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The appointment of a Ministerial task team to investigate aspects of the military health system in South Africa came after the financial...

Denel Land Systems delivers ambulances to SANDF

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Denel is in the process of delivering twenty truck-mounted ambulances to the South African Medical Health Service (SAMHS). Stephan Burger, the CEO of...

Defence minister opens Rand Show with a bang

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Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula officially opened the 2014 Rand Show on Friday morning with a number of impressive demonstrations from the various...

Surgeon General confident HIV/Aids can be beaten in the SANDF

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The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Surgeon General, the man with overall responsibility for the good health of the country's armed forces,...

Work ahead for SAMHS to improve service

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Satisfaction responses around the 70 to 80% mark as well many scathing comments indicate the SA Military Health Service's (SAMHS) quest to...

SAMHS in the forefront of military medical care

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Outgoing Surgeon General Lieutenant General Veejay Ramlakan (left in picture) points to the achievements of the SA Military Health Service's (SAMHS) Presidential...