A total of 129 healthcare professionals, including university heads, CEOs, scientists, medical specialists, doctors and professors, have written to Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane pleading with him to rescind his decision to remove provincial health’s head of department, Dr Rolene Wagner, from her position.
Mbulelo Sogoni, director-general of the office of the premier, is concerned by the provincial health department’s tardiness in filling more than 1,000 critical posts, including CEOs of various hospitals and directors of several sub-departments.
Inadequate resources at several Eastern Cape public mental health facilities means families often have to shoulder the burden of caring for relatives with mental disorders while healthcare centres are overwhelmed by patients in need of psychiatric services.