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City’s R100m hospital lawsuits
Category: Lawsuits
NELSON Mandela Bay state hospitals are facing negligence lawsuits to the tune of more than R100-million – mostly from parents whose babies had died or were severely disabled following allegedly flawed birthing operations at Dora Nginza Hospital.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryProbe into Missing hospital files
Category: Lawsuits
MEDICAL records are disappearing at an alarming rate from the Port Elizabeth Hospital Complex – many of them allegedly at the instruction of unscrupulous lawyers who want to sue the state on behalf of patients.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHealth service a mixed picture
Category: Politics
WHILE Nelson Mandela Bay’s two trauma units are operating smoothly despite staff shortages, the city’s ambulance service is in chaos, with vehicles failing to reach the desperately ill people who need them most.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryThe good and bad of state health
Category: Politics
AN injured teenage boy lies on a wooden bench in a busy corridor as a nurse hooks his drip to a door handle. This is one of the first scenes that greets The Herald during an unannounced informal inspection of Nelson Mandela Bay’s four state hospitals.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryVacant posts crippling Bay’s state hospitals
Category: Politics
MORE than a third of the critical and most specialised positions at Nelson Mandela Bay’s four state hospitals are vacant – and no one seems to want the jobs.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHospitals overspend by millions
Category: Politics
WHILE all four of the Bay’s hospitals have had their budgets increase with inflation in recent years, top officials in the department admit this is not enough, as they are overspending by hundreds of millions of rand.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryNew Health MEC cracks down on overspending
Category: Politics
THE Eastern Cape’s fourth Health MEC since 2008, Sicelo Gqobana admits that the task of reforming a department which has become endemically flawed and crippled by corruption is an immense one.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryManaging Bay health budget no mean feat
Category: Politics
MANAGING an annual budget of R600-million is no mean feat for Health Department district head Tommy Oliver, who spoke frankly to The Herald about the Bay’s healthcare hiccups, as well as its successes.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHealth services fail Bay citizens
Category: Stories
A team of Herald reporters probed the state of Nelson Mandela Bay's Healthcare system and found that it is on the brink of collapse.
Post a Comment (1) Comments Read the rest of this entryBay clinics in deep crisis
Category: Clinics
COMMUNITY clinics in Nelson Mandela Bay are failing the people they serve due to a lack of staff and equipment, poor facilities and under qualified staff who regularly misdiagnose patients. The city’s 50 clinics are on average 50% understaffed and have just five full-time doctors to aid the 300-odd nursing staff.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHospitals swamped as clinics flounder
Category: Clinics
Massive staff shortages
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryResidents close M’well clinic
Category: Clinics
MOTHERWELL residents have closed down an understaffed municipal clinic after health officials failed to deliver on promises made two years ago.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryDoctors' life or death decisions
Category: Diseases
OVERWORKED Port Elizabeth doctors are being forced to make “life or death” decisions about who gets to use specialised equipment such as dialysis machines.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryBay woman has been on dialysis longest in SA
Category: Diseases
IT has been a tough journey for South Africa’s longest-surviving dialysis patient, Port Elizabeth resident Amanda van Wijk. She has had two kidney transplants, more than 20000 hours hooked up to dialysis machines and mountains of medication.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryBay losing the war against tuberculosis
Category: Diseases
NELSON Mandela Bay is losing the war on tuberculosis, with less than a third of infected patients recovering from the disease.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHIV costs crippling the Bay’s hospitals
Category: Diseases
THE surge in the number of people dying from Aids and HIV-related illnesses is crippling Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals – and doctors say it will only get worse.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryPublic health near collapse
Category: Emergency Services
PUBLIC healthcare in Nelson Mandela Bay is facing an unprecedented collapse, with widespread allegations of preventable deaths, desperate communities being left in the lurch by under-resourced clinics and an exodus of highly skilled specialists.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryPort Elizabeth hospitals in spotlight
Category: Hospitals
With the most critical state hospitals in the Bay falling under the Port Elizabeth Hospital Complex, Brian Hayward asked acting chief executive, Solly Pretorius, some tough questions.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entrySister Booi ‘pillar of strength’ at burns unit
Category: Hospitals
TENDING to young children who have been burnt beyond recognition is not for the faint-hearted, and Sister Phindiwe Booi, who has been with Nelson Mandela Bay’s paediatric burns unit for 30 years, admits she has shed her fair share of tears.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryInfant deaths still a concern
Category: Hospitals
ONE of the city’s most controversial units, the maternity ward at Dora Nginza Hospital has made headlines for all the wrong reasons following horror stories from mothers who blame staff for complications arising with the birth of their babies.
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Your WeatherYour Views
dokhotelo 17 May 2012 8:31 pm.....and for the interested.........another goddess went up there.....great Donna Summer !!!!!!!...........maybe for a duet with Whitney!!!!!..................
dokhotelo 17 May 2012 8:28 pm....perhaps....just perhaps..a slim chance to the youngsters to have some quality in the somnolent village.other than drinking until crawling on the floor or worse, before going to better places.........
thirsty 17 May 2012 12:17 pmwhat the hell next time Cosatu has a strike lets all go and throw rocks at them as well that might teach them some tolerance...
TheRef 16 May 2012 6:21 pmWell,well! COSATU knew what was coming and spoilt the DA party,it appears democratic rights only apply to the ruling party and it`s allies.The resulting judgement will be interesting seeing who pays t...
dokhotelo 15 May 2012 8:56 pmhe he he he......800 million bucks!!......After all, it seems there are ANC Mafia syndicates running the EC at all levels....ain't it Editrix dear ???....................
Bokkie 15 May 2012 2:01 pmRegarding the "new health fraud shock" I wonder why? let's see... O yes all the people in top positions are without any qualifications, any previous experience, they are incompetant to do their job, ...
thirsty 14 May 2012 12:56 pmThis sounds absolutely STUPID, just think what development could be done for people of Port Elizabeth with that money, LET ALONE GET THE METRO's FINANCES FIXED UP by not doing this....
thirsty 14 May 2012 12:44 pmR800 Million stolen in one department in one year, AND THEY STILL VOTE FOR THE ANC, HOW STUPID. Western Cape gets a clean audit, and puts out more tenders and contracts BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT STOLEN T...
mastermindPE 14 May 2012 10:28 amIS THIS ACCEPTABLE YOU THIEVES FROM THE USELESS ANC-pf ?????...
mastermindPE 14 May 2012 10:22 amYou get the corrupt evil government you deserve when you vote for these clowns in the ANC-pf. All about cadre deployment, pillage, plunder, steal and feel feathers for the voting fodder they USE to st...
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