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New machine will finally end Frere's laundry woes

After contending with old washing machines that often broke down, resulting in delays in washing laundry at Frere Hospital, the Eastern Cape department of health bought a state-of-the-art tunnel washer for R18m.

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Health department may run out of funds for essential supplies

With the provincial health department having spent most of its goods and services budget just five months into the financial year, there are concerns the department might soon run out of funds for critical healthcare.

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Over 1,000 vital EC health services posts vacant

Mbulelo Sogoni, director-general of the office of the premier, is concerned by the provincial health department’s tardiness in filling more than 1,000 critical posts, including CEOs of various hospitals and directors of several sub-departments.

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LISTEN | Frere patients left to suffer 10-year wait for orthopaedic surgery

Patients requiring orthopaedic surgery such as joint replacements at East London’s Frere Hospital face a decade-long wait. Patients requiring joint replacements are often in agonising pain. Daron Mann speaks to Jane Cowley, Democratic Alliance's health spokesperson and shadow MEC for Health as they unpack the devastating 10-year wait patients requiring orthopaedic surgery such as joint replacements face.

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R1.42bn budgeted to improve healthcare centres across EC

The Eastern Cape department of health has allocated R1.42bn to renovate and refurbish 110 healthcare centres across the province in the 2023/24 financial year which begins next week.

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Boy, 16, dies after alleged beating by fellow pupils

The family of a 16-year-old boy are in shock over his death, after he was allegedly beaten up by two fellow pupils, a boy and a girl, outside and inside his school’s premises in Butterworth on Tuesday. The fight was allegedly ignited by a tiff on Facebook. Iviwe Tyalana, a grade 11 pupil at Lamplough Senior Secondary School, died in hospital on Wednesday after having been admitted in a serious condition.

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Eastern Cape medical negligence victims suffer as lawyer makes hundreds of millions

One firm of attorneys paid out to intended beneficiaries only 24% of almost R500m in medico-legal claim settlements meant for these children’s future medical and other needs.

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Trying to close a stable door that the horse kicked to pieces before bolting

The health department is celebrating a Bhisho high court judgment which essentially frees the department from having to make an upfront payment of R35m in a medical negligence claim. The bulk of that R35m would have gone towards paying for the future medical needs of a little Mdantsane boy whose life was irredeemably destroyed at his birth 11 years ago by the negligence of the department’s staff working at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH).

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State must care for patients it injures, court agrees

Maternity staff in Mdantsane’s Cecilia Makiwane hospital negligently delayed attending to mother-to-be Ms TN when she went into labour 11 years ago, causing her son to be born with severe brain injuries and the most severe form of disablement.

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Health department working hard to digitise patient records

The health department is on a drive to digitilise its patients’ records through a web-based electronic health software solution known as HMS², in a bid to improve patient safety and experience in hospitals, while saving the department money.

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