EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS ACTION COALITION – FEB 2022 ADVISORY
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition urges the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) to provide tangible plans to remedy healthcare crisis in the province.
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 time to contemplate how she will access healthcare services. Her immediate concern is for the safe delivery of her infant Continue Reading
Civil Society voice concern over Health Ombud’s treatment of whistle-blower
We are concerned that the findings against Dr Sukeri and the focus on those findings in the Ombud’s report and presentation thereof will significantly hinder other health care professionals from coming forward to speak out about their concerns…
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
Philani Clinic: A timeline of failure
A few meters from the entrance to Philani Clinic in Queenstown, opposite the gate, is a black-walled tavern. On weekdays, it’s as quiet as a church; but on weekends, music bursts out of its dark interior, cars line the street and patrons dance between them, holding beer cans and bottles. The gates of the clinic are not
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 Commission’s report on Emergency Health Services in the province. We noted that on 1 April 2016, the Eastern Cape Department Continue Reading
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 from a complaint submitted to the Commission by the community of Xhora Mouth, a group of around 2000 people living Continue Reading
Update on the Eastern Cape health crisis: ECHCAC newsletter Volume 2
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) has released the second volume of their newsletter with updates on the state on healthcare in the province. It is titled Response to Eastern Cape Department of Health “Eastern Cape Health systems Interventions”. It contains the Coalition’s analysis of the ECDoH plan to fix Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHAC) analysis of the ECDoH’s Eastern Cape Health Systems Intervention document
Read the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition’s analysis of the ‘Eastern Cape Health Systems Intervention’ which is being presented this morning to the Portfolio Committee on Health in Parliament here ECHCAC- response to ECDoH _Eastern Cape Heath Systems Interventions_ 5 November 2013 FINAL
SECTION27 PRESS RELEASE IN RESPONSE TO THE MINISTER OF HEALTH’S BRIEFING TO PARLIAMENT TODAY RE: THE EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS
CAPE TOWN – National health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and newly appointed Head of the Eastern Cape health department Dr Thobile Mbengashe today addressed the Portfolio Committee on Health regarding plans to address the crisis in the province. Committee chair Mr Bevan Goqwana acknowledged that the briefing had been called Continue Reading
ECHCAC press statement: Request for a meeting with Premier, Provincial Government and the ANC following non-response from MEC Sicelo Gqobana
EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS ACTION COALITION 15 October 2013 ECHCAC press statement: Request for a meeting with Premier, Provincial Government and the ANC following non-response from MEC Sicelo Gqobana EAST LONDON – The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) resolved at a meeting yesterday to immediately write to the Continue Reading
ECHCAC Press Statement: Deadline looms for Eastern Cape Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana
EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS ACTION COALITION Press conference: Deadline looms for Eastern Cape Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana On September 13 2013 the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) handed a memorandum to Eastern Cape head of department Thobile Mbengashe. In it we raised a number of issues in which Continue Reading