Eastern Cape

Timeline of a troubled province

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Over the past 15 years the Eastern Cape Health Department has deteriorated. Fraught with medicine shortages, equipment failures, huge staff vacancies, corruption and fraud, this timeline documents just some of the many problems surrounding this troubled province.

laurawatermeyer
September 11, 2013

Catastrophe as Eastern Cape drug stock-outs continue

Health

Thousands of people living with HIV in the Eastern Cape are in catastrophic danger of developing fatal drug resistance due to ongoing interruptions in their antiretroviral (ARV) drug supplies, with activists calling on the national health minster to intervene. The…

Anso Thom
June 18, 2013

School toilets in shocking state

Determinants Of Health, Health, Health Systems, Our Health

Millions of people do not have access to proper sanitation and in South African schools the situation is especially dire. Health-e News Service conducted an informal survey of the state of 17 schools' toilets that fall within four of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts. At all 17 schools the toilets were in a shocking condition. By OurHealth Reporters.

mtshanamvlisi
May 2, 2013

‘Patients default because of nurses’

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. - Makazi Damane is a 42-year-old Lusikisiki man living at the low-income housing scheme in at Joe Slovo. He was diagnosed with HIV and started antiretroviral treatment in 2006, but from 2010 have been going on and off of treatment.

mtshanamvlisi
April 16, 2013

Villagers taught the importance of treatment adherence

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI – Communities living in the Dubana and Mevana villages here were recently educated on the importance of adhering to treatment regimens.

mtshanamvlisi
April 16, 2013

Many ECape clinics still short on drugs

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. - OurHealth spoke to patients and staff at various clinics in the OR Tambo district to hear about people's personal experiences with the health services here.

mtshanamvlisi
March 28, 2013

E Cape demands better health services

Health Systems, Our Health

BISHO. ' Members of the Ubuntu Bethu last week marched to the offices of the Eastern Cape Health MEC to demand better health services in the province.

mtshanamvlisi
March 8, 2013

‘Long live those living with HIV’

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. - Nkosiphendule Ngwendu, or Di, as people call him, lives in Mevana Administration Area in Lusikisiki. He is 32 years old and living with HIV.

mtshanamvlisi
March 1, 2013

Community surprised by good service

Health, Health Systems, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. ' Residents from Mevana district in the Eastern Cape were stunned by the level of service they received from the emergency services in the area. This community, who is used to long queues, medicine stock outs and generally poor health services was pleasantly surprised when the emergency services arrived within minutes after they logged a call.

mtshanamvlisi
February 15, 2013

E Cape DoH should answer to community

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. ' Communities in the Eastern Cape are up in arms about the breakdown in health services in this province and activist groups here are pressurising local and provincial departments for answers and solutions.

mtshanamvlisi
February 8, 2013

E Cape patients protest over poor service

Health Systems, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. ' Patients and community members from this Eastern Cape village clashed with police during a march to the local office of the Department of Health where they delivered a memorandum of grievances about the health services in the area.

mtshanamvlisi
February 8, 2013

Treatment woes for HIV patient

Health, Our Health

Lusikisiki. ' For Nontandabuzo Bhokhwayidli, a 43-year-old woman from Mfinizweni Village in the Eastern Cape, an HIV diagnosis in 2004 was only the start of her health problems, because at times the treatment she received for HIV were worse than the disease itself.

mtshanamvlisi
January 29, 2013

Slow progress on E Cape clinic

Health Systems, Our Health

Lusikisiki. ' The Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Health has not delivered on their promise of a new, fully-functional Village Clinic to replace the previous one that had to close down after the department failed to pay rent for the premises.

mtshanamvlisi
January 17, 2013

Living positively with HIV

Health, Our Health

Lusikisiki ' Nontlahla Boyizi, a 20-year-old woman from Ngobozana Village in the Eastern Cape, was shocked when she recently received the news that she was HIV positive.

mtshanamvlisi
January 9, 2013

’16 Days’ event empowers E Cape community

Our Health

Lusikisiki ' Gender-based violence and crimes against children and the elderly are everyday occurrences in the Eastern Cape village of Mcobothini. In fact, crime statistics for the area show that more than half (55 percent) of all women and children living there fall victim to violence.

mtshanamvlisi
December 13, 2012

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