In a damning response to questions from the Democratic Alliance, the Eastern Cape Department of Health has revealed that patients needing orthopaedic surgery will have to wait up to ten […]
Patients waiting for life-saving orthopaedic surgeries at Livingstone Hospital have now been told by their doctors to call President Cyril Ramaphosa, because their hands are tied and cannot operate because […]
Flash floods that hit Komani during the early hours of this morning have taken out generators at both the town’s hospitals, placing patients’ lives at risk. One generator at the […]
The Cradock hospital has had its power cut off by the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality because the Department of Health has not paid its municipal account. The Department owes a […]
The generator at the B. J. Vorster Hospital in Kareedouw malfunctioned at the start of the year, endangering patients’ lives whenever loadshedding is implemented. Three weeks have passed, but it […]
The latest adjustments budget, tabled in the Eastern Cape Legislature last week, made it clear that there is simply not enough money available to rescue the failing Department of Health […]
A year later and the Eastern Cape Department of Health has still not paid a service provider who supplied critical, life-saving implants for paediatric cardiology patients at the Provincial Hospital. […]
Of the 84 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) bases in the Eastern Cape, not one is compliant with EMS regulations in terms of personnel required at the base. These critical staff […]
Residents living in Nelson Mandela Bay have been unable to get any assistance from the Provincial Department of Health’s Emergency Medical Services, because the call centre has been offline. Imagine […]
The provincial government needs to put firm plans in place to take Eastern Cape hospitals off the grid. The ongoing rolling blackouts across the country are deepening the crises at […]
Issued by Jane Cowley MPL