CRY FOR HELP: Starving Eastern Cape families appeal to president

Children in the Eastern Cape are starving. So acute is the problem that desperate residents have begged the country’s president and the province’s premier to intervene.On Wednesday, health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth’s spokesperson, Mkhululi Ndamase, said that between April 2021 and September 2023 about 3,070 Eastern Cape children were treated for acute malnutrition and 1,314 were admitted to hospital for acute malnutrition.

Related Keywords

,Starving Eastern Cape ,Port St Johns ,Eastern Cape ,Comment Policy ,Children ,Sa Human Rights Commission ,Dispatch ,Mec Nomakhosazana Meth ,Nosakhele Mngqinelwa ,Cry For Help ,Desperate Port St Johns ,Chantel Lombard ,Oscar Mabuyane ,Mec Bukiwe Fanta ,Cyril Ramaphosa ,Nosalathiso Petshana ,Majola ,Petros Majola ,Cwebeni Village ,East London ,Sunbeams Share Kindness ,Cwebeni Community Development Forum ,Dispatchlive ,Sassa ,Khula Community And Development Projects ,South African ,Itombo ,Ispatch Live In Eastern Cape ,Thatha ,News ,Port ,Lassifieds ,Lifestyle ,