The provincial health department has inducted a cohort of new nurses and redeployed retired professionals in the Bay to bolster the beleaguered primary healthcare system amid continuing staff shortages.
Lecturers doing administrative work, uninhabitable nursing student accommodation, frequent break-ins at some campuses, an exodus of staff since 2017, and some campuses with no students. These are among the challenges at the Lilitha Nursing College in the Eastern Cape that the provincial legisla.
Lilitha nursing college was established in terms of the provisions of the Education and Training of Nurses and Midwives Act 4 of 2003 - and the college comprises five campuses and 19 sub-campuses spread across the Eastern Cape.