Butterworth Hospital: A crisis in the making
Bakkie with Bed Bakkies transport patients to the hospital because ambulances don't arrive It’s an uphill drive to Butterworth Hospital, a bustling, rambling, noisy, chaotic town on the N2 between…
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…
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…
Press statement: Systematic Problems in Drug Supply Have to be Addressed Now to Avert Future Crisis
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