The national government has taken over administration of the Eastern Cape’s mental health directorate. A Daily Dispatch report says this was after Health Minister...
December 12th, 2018The slow pace at which the government is moving on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has drawn the ire of Cosatu, which plans to raise the issue at a meeting...
Two years after the Life Esidimeni tragedy not a single professional body has taken steps against professionals involved in the project, a Beeld report notes. Health...
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...
