6444 Accesses 24 Citations Metrics details Abstract Background Bapedi traditional healers of Blouberg are custodians of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants of this region. They provide primary health care to a large number of people in the Blouberg area of South Africa. There is concern that ...
From this document, the Department of Health (DoH) of each province of South Africa has extracted their own guideline documents, with more details on the definition, handling, segregation, containerization, onsite transportation, and storage of HCRW within their healthcare facilities [9]. The ...
Department of Population Health Sciences, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, George Davies Centre, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2023,20(3), 1842;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph200...
The Department of Health in South Africa developed the Patient’s Rights Charter, which emphasizes that patients have rights. According to Chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights, patients have the right to information pertaining to their health and to express themselves and to have their freedom of exp...
The presence of microcystins in the rivers may constitute a health risk, especially for the communities that may be in contact or drink the polluted water without any form of treatment or suitable treatment that is able to remove the toxins in the water. The convectional method for water ...
Ethical clearance was granted by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Venda (SHS/16/PDC/35/1611), and permission to conduct the study was obtained from the Department of Health, Limpopo Province (LP/4/2/2), as well as from Mopani, Vhembe, and Capricorn Districts. Ethical pri...
These claims emphasize the importance of the immediate care of patients’ environments, particularly surfaces within the patient’s proximity, frequently touched by or in direct physical contact with the patient (e.g., bed rails, bedside tables, and chairs, etc.) in preventing the subsequent ...
In addition, high contact of NO2 by humans increases the susceptibility to respiratory infections [17]. Furthermore, when these acidic gases reach the atmosphere, they tend to acidify the moisture in the atmosphere and fall down as acid rain. Phadi et al. [20] identified that sulphur dioxide...