Despite a decrease in the prevalence of HIV/Aids in SA, Eastern Cape health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth wants to see the rate of new infections reduced by at least 50% in the next five years.
As financial woes continue to hamper the provincial health department, frustrated patients say they are being forced to wait longer for orthopaedic surgery due to a lack of medical implants and other equipment at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane.
Twenty children and two adults have a reason to smile after receiving life-changing cleft lip and palate surgery performed by Operation Smile SA in conjunction with the Eastern Cape health department.
Eastern Cape health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth says the province’s pothole-ridden rural roads are damaging its ambulances, slowing emergency response times and forcing the department to use helicopters at great cost to reach inaccessible areas. Meth revealed this when she tabled her department’s annual report for the 2022/2023 financial year in the provincial legislature last week.
A Lilitha Nursing College lecturer has died after a horror car crash on her way to a colleague’s funeral in Whittlesea on Saturday. Ellen Nomazwe Adams, 57, was travelling with three fellow healthcare workers when the accident happened. Adams died of her injuries at Komani private hospital. The three medics she was travelling with a lecturer and two general assistants were initially also transferred to hospitals in Komani.