The department of health, in collaboration with Walter Sisulu University and Human Reproduction Programme, is calling for volunteers to take part in a cervical cancer screening and treatment algorithms (Cesta) study using human…
Eastern Cape Childhood Cancer Foundation [Choc] regional chair Mbulelo Plaatjie is a busy man. Despite being fully employed, Plaatjie finds time to raise funds and to drive awareness campaigns at schools and churches. In between he visits…
Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane on Saturday night met with labour minister Thulas Nxesi in an attempt to reverse the decision to close the hospital for failing to comply with Covid-19 health and safety requirements. The hospital was…
Labour department health and safety inspectors have ordered a total and immediate shutdown of East London’s Frere Hospital over concerns that its measures for stopping the spread of Covid-19 — including access control — are inadequate.…
Frere Hospital workers downed tools on Tuesday over a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). They also accused the hospital of hiding positive coronavirus cases to avoid causing panic. The workers protested outside the hospital in…
Provincial health MEC Sindiswa Gomba is believed to have given a radio interview on Thursday morning confirming the death. The death did not form part of health minister Zweli Mkhize’s update on the countrywide infections and deaths as at…
