It’s an uphill drive to Butterworth Hospital, a bustling, rambling, noisy, chaotic town on the N2 between Mthatha and East London. Coming from East London you turn left and head up a hill past dilapidated houses and blocks of flat with the big hospital building perched on a hill. Everything seems Continue Reading
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
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
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