SA Health Department runs out of the Pill

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Health Department denies severity of problem

SOUTH Africans should brace themselves for a population explosion as public clinics, particularly in Gauteng, have run out of the supply of contraceptives for sexually active women.

A senior government official, who refused to be identified, told Sowetan yesterday that the company that supplies public clinics had ran out of contraceptives.

The government supplies the public with Nordette and Triphasil contraceptive pills. “All we know is that the company is waiting for supplies from overseas and the little that they have inside the country has to go through a quality assurance test,” the official said.

Sowetan has learnt that there are 86 clinics in Ekurhuleni, and, according to the Democratic Alliance, all have no contraceptives.

It would take two months before they are delivered.

Dr Reddy, the company that supplies the contraceptives, said it was working around the clock to “close gaps ” which it hoped would be filled by the end of the month.

A manager at Dr Reddy, Nihar Patnaik, assured Sowetan that despite “slight” problems they had in July, the company would fill the “gaps ” before the end of the month.

Cape Town-based medical doctor Dr Lebogang Phahladira said problems that women who switch from contraceptive pills to the injection could face included unwanted pregnancy, bleeding, weight gain and the possibility of weak bone structure in the long term.

“Certainly, there are potential problems, especially unwanted pregnancy, ” Phahladira said.

National Department of Health spokesman Popo Maja said the department was not aware of a shortage of contraceptives in public clinics.

Gauteng, with the highest female population in the country, is hardest hit by the shortage.

Provincial health spokesman Simon Zwane denied that the shortage was severe in the province.

“There is a shortage of pills, but it is not on a large scale. Injections are available in clinics,” he said.

Of the three regions in Gauteng, Ekurhuleni clinics have no contraceptives on their shelves.

A member of the mayoral committee for health in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council, Khosi Maluleke, yesterday admitted there was a shortage, but insisted that in some clinics contraceptives were still available.

“It is not all clinics that do not have contraceptives, and when there is shortage of any medicine from a clinic, they have a right to go and get what they do not have from another clinic,” she said.

Maluleke denied that all forms of contraceptives were not available in clinics. “We only have a shortage of pills, and we advise people who visit clinics to consider an injection.”

DA caucus leader in Ekurhuleni Shelley Loe yesterday told a council meeting that none of the clinics in the region has contraceptive pills and injections.

During the council sitting, Loe challenged mayor Mondli Gungubele to give her “straight answers on issues and not resort to your usual racist slurs and jokes to detract from the real problems facing very real women ”.

In his reply, Gungubele steered clear of the contraceptives topic.

Loe later told Sowetan that the shortage was as a result of nonpayment of service providers by the government.

ONLY IN AFRICA

A protestor at the Earthlife Africa protest against a planned coal mine in Limpopo.  I would agree to their claims if they could actually organize a protest without rent-a-crowd and did their posters properly.

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Mining/Activists-protest-Anglos-dirty-energy-20130806

DEWEY SYSTEM

Recently I was in the local library where all the books are supposedly arranged by the Dewey System.

The funny thing is that the Dewey System starts at 001 - fantastic! This section of the Dewey System is for Knowledge which includes things of esoteric nature. So when computers came alon there was no space for the subject so the powers plonked it in the front at 000.

All well and good, but the fun starts when you put a book called "The mysteries of the Universe" next to "Networking made simple"

Today I see a book named "Hunting by Selous scout" next to "Art of criticism."

witch

This is exactly the way  I feel about folding washing!!!!

Milpark Hospital Netcare????

Today I had to take a customer of mine to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.

Firstly there is hardly any handicapped parking for cars without handicapped stickers.  God help those of us who are temporarily handicapped or are transporting handicapped people.

Secondly, when one can actually get a wheelchair from a locked off space they are barely pushable.  The one chair was missing a footrest and the other had a flat tire, making pushing very difficult.  Then try and push the chair through a doorway which has a fat pillar in front of it!!!

Thirdly, the lift has four buttons.  0 for ground, m for mezzanine, 1 for First Floor and 2 for second floor.  Now worries so far, but when one gets off at 1 and thinks that one can just go down three steps to the mezzanine floor,  Har har.  No you have to get back into lift and press M.  Super!!  

With said limping wheelchair turn right and then turn left through a narrow doorway barely wide enough for the chair.  Then you walk 57 paces (approx 50m) and then you come to a carpet covered ramp branching off to the left.  Push limping chair with loads of energy.  The orthopedic surgeon is at the end of this ramp and along a passage of about 5m with a locked door which requires a person inside to release it.  Pusher has to reach over passenger and pull door towards one and then somehow hold door open so the wheelchair can be pushed through without injuring the passenger.

My conclusion is that this maze of long passages was designed (if that is what is called) by a drunken architect with the DT's.

THE REAL REASON YOU HATE YOUR JOB

THE REAL REASON YOU HATE YOUR JOB

You make THIS mistake when you send your CV in

By Kelsey Tamborrino

Hate your daily grind? Blame your open mind. Being too flexible in your job search could lead to a 9-to-5 you despise, finds a new Belgian study.

Researchers surveyed more than 300 unemployed people and found that those who were willing to look outside their specific field, accept a lower salary, or consider a longer commute were more unhappy with their eventual jobs than those who stuck to their comfort zones.

While taking an accommodating approach can boost your odds of gaining employment, it can backfire when you actually get the gig: being over-qualified or under-experienced for your position leads to having a negative job attitude, the researchers say.

And when you wake up every morning dreading another day at the office, you’re a lot more likely to quit and end up right where you started: the unemployment line.

Narrow your sights to land a job you love, advises career expert Nicole Williams, connections director for LinkedIn.

Her advice: use the social networking service to do an advanced search for people who already hold the position you want at similar companies.

Don’t be pushy or ask for a job; instead, send a personal note asking your contact if you can pick his brain for a few minutes about what his day-to-day entails. You’ll make another connection and figure out which jobs are right for you.

RESIDENTIAL ESTATES

I find it ironic that all the rich "free" people of South Africa live behind high walls, burglar bars and security alarm systems while the thieves, rapists and murderers all walk free along the roads.