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.
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
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 to the clinic; a 10-year-old boy dying of pneumonia because his mother could no longer carry him to hospital; a Continue Reading
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 ambulances. I have never seen an ambulance in my area.” – testimony from Xhora Mouth resident EAST LONDON, 30 March Continue Reading
Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition
A recently launched website unveiling the secrecy around the annual initiation rituals in the Eastern Cape has sparked a large outcry among sections of the Eastern Cape population, notably the Traditional Leadership. The website was launched by a health care provider after treating mutilated boys across several initiation seasons and 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
Keiskamma Trust joins ECHCAC
The Keiskamma Trust, a community organisation that works with vulnerable groups in the Amatole region in the Eastern Cape has released a statement announcing that they are officially and publicly joining the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC). Please find the press statement attached. Keiskamma Joins ECHCAC press statement 24 October 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
Update on the Eastern Cape health crisis: ECHCAC newsletter series, Volume 1
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