Double trauma as ambulance fails to arrive again
He could have lived Friday Mfengu recalls the torturous days before his brother died while waiting for an ambulance When a woman goes into a labour, she has a little…
SIU investigation into Buthelezi EMS signals a move to greater accountability
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign welcome the announcement of a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) probe into contracts that the Free State and North West health departments entered into with…
Silence over ambulance ‘strike’ in Eastern Cape
ECHCAC calls on the provincial and national health departments to urgently intervene before any more lives are lost. The Coalition urges the departments to act swiftly to avoid the situation degenerating to the state which occurred in the North
No ambulance = death
For Nozikotshi Lulu, December 2011 was anything but joyful. She remembers it as the most painful period of her life. Her son, Mveliso (30), had been working away from home during the course of the year. She looked forward to his homecoming but when he returned home at the beginning of the month he became ill.
Emergency Medical Services – ECHCAC analysis of ECDoH response to Commission
On 14 June 2016, the Eastern Cape Health Action Crisis Coalition wrote to the South African Human Rights Commission in relation to the Eastern Cape Department of Health Response to the…
Long walk to health care
In March 2015, the South African Human Rights Commission held a hearing on Emergency Medical Services in the Eastern Cape. The Commission’s interest in Eastern Cape emergency medical services emerged…
EMS in the Eastern Cape
Mothers giving birth at home; babies developing disabilities due to difficult unsupervised births; diabetics unable to reach treatment; old women crossing rivers and spending most of their pensions to get…
ECHCAC on EC EMS hearing
ECHCAC STATEMENT ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION’S HEARING INTO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE EASTERN CAPE “I am grateful to hear that the government provides these things called…