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Healthcare staff under siege from crime - Juta MedicalBrief

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Public healthcare workers are living in fear as criminals wage a war of robbery and assault on them, with attacks escalating – and even demands for “protection fees” compounding their stresses, reports TimesLIVE. According to the Health Department, 420 staff were robbed, assaulted or asked to pay a protection fee between 2019 and November last year, most of them being in the Western Cape, followed by the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Last week…
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Medical Brief broke the news in on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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