#NHIPublicHearings: Could the NHI be the messiah the Eastern Cape needs?
The province’s health system has been reported to be one of the worst in the country and residents live in hope that it will change with the National Health Insurance.
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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.
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.
Township artist uses art to celebrate unique skin
Vitiligo, albinism and freckles are relatively known as the skin conditions that make affected individuals seem different from their peers resulting to confidence loss and distress, artist Mandilakhe Rolinyathi celebrates their unique skin through artwork with the aim of unsettling stigma.
Calls for increased budgets in the mental health sector
The Life Esidimeni tragedy, patient abuse and suicide by health professionals are among the issues pointing to a dire need for better management of public sector psychiatry.
ARVs to be available through special ATMs
Access to treatment will be now be made easier for people living with HIV/AIDS as they will now be able to collect their medicine at shopping malls thanks to the introduction of specials ATM machines.
Health services improvement for Lusikisiki
Residents of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape who have complained about the health services provided by Village Clinic since 2013 will be getting a new clinic in August.
A pharmacy to benefit inmates
Thousands of inmates at 12 Correctional Services facilities are now receiving their medication on time thanks to the opening of a new pharmacy set up at the Umthatha Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape.