Lusikisiki Village Clinic: The seven-year fight for a permanent clinic ends
The community protested, activists threatened legal action and a settlement was reached. Seven years later, the newly built permanent Village Clinic is opened.
Organic farmer encourages youth to get into food gardening
“The health of the land is linked to people’s health and future.” This is Khaya Mposula’s ethos, an organic farmer in the Eastern Cape.
More paramedics need to be trained, says union
The addition of emergency vehicles to the Eastern Cape fleet is welcomed but a trade union says more staff is also needed.
Alarm over NHI Bill
Members of the country’s biggest medical aid scheme — government employees — are concerned about the implementation of universal healthcare.
Karate instructor aims to give obesity the chop
This Eastern Cape father uses karate and gardening to keep young and elderly members of his community healthy and active.
#SAAIDS2019: Youth demand more inclusion
Young people are excluded from the world’s second-largest conference, say activists.
Furious nurses threaten to withhold votes
“No jobs, no vote,” shouted unemployed nurses who marched to O.R Tambo Health sub-district offices in Lusikisiki last week. The unhappy nurses sang, carried placards and handed over a memorandum demanding that the Eastern Cape Department of Health employ them in the Ingquza Hill municipality.
More than plaster to fix rural healthcare
As the seasons change and summer becomes a distant memory, May elections creep closer. Campaign posters line the roadways and fight for space on telephone poles of every city and village.
Villagers’ treacherous journey for healthcare
For KwaMhlanga villagers seeking healthcare may actually kill them. Many residents of the Eastern Cape village have deserted health services due to the alarming rate of rape and murders in a forest separating the village and the clinic in Flagstaff town.
Villagers’ treacherous journey for healthcare
For KwaMhlanga villagers seeking healthcare may actually kill them. Many residents of the Eastern Cape village have deserted health services due to the alarming rate of rape and murders in a forest separating the village and the clinic in Flagstaff town.
Community suffers as leaders squabble over clinic site
Residents of Makhwaleni Village, near the Eastern Cape town of Lusikisiki, have been deprived of a new clinic for years as the Amakhwalo Chief and the ward councillor squabble over where it should be built.
Community suffers as leaders squabble over clinic site
Residents of Makhwaleni Village, near the Eastern Cape town of Lusikisiki, have been deprived of a new clinic for years as the Amakhwalo Chief and the ward councillor squabble over where it should be built.