To alleviate gaps in accessibility to primary healthcare, three state-of-the-art Department of Health mobile clinics, will be making their rounds in communities across Buffalo City soon, focusing on hotspots such as Reeston, Ducatts, and…
The health department has defended its decision to use the SA Post Office (Sapo) to distribute chronic medication for government clinic patients. This is after pharmacists raised concerns about how medication was being handled by post…
Glen Grey Provincial Hospital nurses have refused to help coronavirus patients who were rushed from Cala to the hospital in Cacadu at the weekend. A video sent by nurses to DispatchLIVE shows staff standing outside the hospital building…
The provincial government is scrambling to quarantine Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 patient one, who has been roaming around East London in defiance of the state’s containment measures. Tough-talking health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, who held a press…
KwaZulu-Natal’s department of health says it is preparing for the worst should the coronavirus spread to informal settlements. Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu said her office was working with the departments of economic development and…
Three of the seven state mental health facilities housing 1280 patients in the Eastern Cape do not have permanent psychiatrists. Eastern Cape health MEC Helen Sauls-August provided details about psychiatrists in a written reply to…
