The Eastern Cape health department on Monday morning released the provincial Covid-19 breakdown, by district, with the latest provincial coronavirus figures. On Sunday night the provincial total went up from 488 to 535, an increase of 47…
The provincial health department on Saturday confirmed that there is a positive Covid-19 infection from a member of a farming community in the Ndlambe district. The person is currently being treated for the coronavirus at Port Alfred…
Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth has been identified as the quarantine facility for the Eastern Cape should SA be affected by the deadly coronavirus sweeping the globe. Eastern Cape department of health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo…
A woman was killed and her husband gravely wounded in a stabbing incident in the Hluleka Reserve, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Independent sources within the emergency medical service, who spoke…
The Eastern Cape health department has opened an investigation after pictures surfaced on social media of plates of poor-looking food from the Cala and Hewu hospitals. HeraldLIVE reports that first, a plate of dry, white rice, along with…
In a shocking turn of events, the 23-year-old man who was arrested for slaughtering and eating the flesh of a woman in KwaBhaca – formerly Mount Frere – on Saturday, has died this morning. Aphiwe Mapekula died at Nelson Mandela Central…
By Siya Tsewu Patients have finally been moved into the new building at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital. The new structure, which took 10 years to build, was officially launched by Eastern Cape premier Phumulo Masualle in March. The 560-bed…
Intensive care unit nurses at Frere Hospital in East London are refusing to look after more than one patient, saying it constitutes overtime – for which the Eastern Cape health department is not paying them. The ratio for ICU nurses to…
Livingstone unable to meet needs of growing number of amputees Port Elizabeth’s Livingstone Hospital has run out of crutches as demand for the walking aid rises, with the institution needing 5 000 pairs. A high number of amputations…
Eastern Cape health spokesman, Sizwe Kupelo has dismissed reports that sport and arts MEC Pemmy Majodina had to be rushed to another hospital as there were no medical doctors in the first one. Majodina was injured in Ugie on Saturday…
Four people have been killed, and another critically injured in a horrific accident on the R72, about 50km from East London this morning. According to health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo, all four died on the scene. “The injured…
The man accused of threatening to kill Eastern Cape department of health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo and Ngcobo-based medical doctor Litha Mboyana told the East London Regional Court yesterday that he was not a killer. “I am not a killer. I am…
Two East London traditional surgeons are on the run after police and parents raided an illegal circumcision school in Scenery Park on the weekend. Two East London traditional surgeons are on the run after their illegal initiation school…
