October 10th, 2018A study has determined the official death toll of the Life Esidimeni scandal is 131. The mortality rate among 1,442 mentally ill patients transferred out of hospitals in...
Psychiatrist Dr Kiran Sukeri‚ who the Health Ombudsman accused of making false claims of ill-treatment of patients at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in the Eastern...Weekly Roundup
The Eastern Cape Health Department has quietly scraped a multi-million-rand mental health facility, earmarked for Dora Nginza Hospital. But, says the Democratic...SA Provincial Health
Seven hundred mental patients in the Eastern Cape are at risk‚ with the Life Esidimeni facility in Kirkwood facing closure after its contract was only extended to...Weekly Roundup
On 23 August 2018, Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba released his report on an investigation into allegations of patient mismanagement and patient rights...Weekly Roundup
Eastern Cape Health MEC, Helen Sauls-August, has made R10m available to "improve mental healthcare" in the province. "The plan includes the recruitment of three...
August 29th, 2018
Findings by Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba that whistleblower claims of unacceptable practices at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in the Eastern Cape...
Half of the doctors and nurses responsible for the Life Esidimeni tragedy still have not been reported to their professional associations, Bhekisisa reports.
The...
July 25th, 2018The former SA head of mental health services Melvyn Freeman has broken years of silence over the Life Esidimeni tragedy, writing in The Lancet Psychiatry that NGOs...
July 4th, 2018There can be no dispute that SA’s health care system needs major reforms, writes Professor Laetitia Rispel of the University of the Witwatersrand in The Conversation....
