Access delayed is access denied at Village Clinic
Health-e News broke the story of the Eastern Cape's Village Clinic in 2012. Ntsiki Mpulo re-visists the clinic for the NSP Review and finds upgrades to the clinic remain long overdue.
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Temporary clinic leaves patients soggy
More than a year after poor conditions at Lusikisiki’s beleaguered Village Clinic thrust it into national headlines, problems continue to plague the clinic.
Protesting villagers get their medicine
More than fifty regular patients at the Village Clinic in the OR Tambo District had a sit-in at the clinic when they were told that their Efavirenz tablets – an anti-retroviral drug for HIV-positive patients – was not available.
Stockouts continue
Patients and nurses particularly in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Mpumalanga continue to report medicine stock-outs at local clinics, including shortages of antiretroviral medicine.
Village Clinic: TAC pressure sees minister step in
Ongoing pressure and threatened litigation from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has led to the construction of a temporary clinic in Lusikisiki and confirmed plans to build a permanent state-of-the-art day hospital.
No progress on Village Clinic
The Lusikisiki community waited in vain last week for a much-anticipated sod turning ceremony, the first promised step towards the new Village Clinic building. According to community members and activists Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana had promised to kick off the…
Clinics without family planning injections
LUSIKISIKI. - All twelve clinics in the Qaukeni sub-district here have had no family planning injections since December last year.
E Cape patients protest over poor service
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.