The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) has launched a newsletter series with regular updates on the state of healthcare in the province. The first edition was released on the 4th of October and details the commitments made by the Minister of Health in response to the TAC/SECTION27 report into Eastern Continue Reading
The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi held a press conference to respond to the SECTION27/TAC report, “Death and Dying in the Eastern Cape” as well as the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition’s (ECHCAC) calls for better health care in the province. Please find the full press statement attached. Dr Continue Reading
On 11 September 2013, SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) launched an investigative report into the collapsing health system in the Eastern Cape. The report is not about statistics and numbers but are stories from those at the coalface of the health system in the Eastern Cape – health Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) invite all media to an important media conference. The conference will feature the release of a special SECTION27 and TAC investigative report into the collapsing health system in the Eastern Cape as well as several announcements on a groundbreaking public campaign to fix Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC), which includes SECTION27, RHAP, TAC and DENOSA among others have written an open letter to the Premier of the Eastern Cape enquiring about the appointment of a permanent Head of Department for the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH). Please follow the Continue Reading
Every month, Lusikisiki Village Clinic serves up to 8,500 people in the OR Tambo District of the Eastern Cape. At the beginning of 2013, the Eastern Cape Department of Health moved the clinic from a building in central Lusikisiki to a plot of dirt on the outskirts of town.
Lusikisiki Village Clinic serves up to 7000 people a month in Qaukeni sub district in the Eastern Cape. The clinic had been operating out of a building in the centre of Lusikisiki since 2005. In January 2013, the Eastern Cape Department of Health moved the clinic out of the building and reopened it in an empty plot on the outskirts of town with a park home and two tents now intended to house the clinic.
On 7 February 2013 TAC and SECTION27 visited the new Village Clinic after hearing terrible stories from patients and! health care workers at the clinic. What we found is a disgrace and violation of patients and workers rights. Read the report here.
After responding to a drug distribution crisis at Mthatha medical depot between 7 December and 24 January, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is handing all activities back to Eastern Cape health authorities. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will mobilize 25 volunteers to assist in the handover