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Staff shortages, snakes have Bay clinics in a mess
Everything from a shortage of supplies, staff and security to complaints about regular visits from snakes as a result of poorly maintained clinic premises have become part of the daily struggles of health-care facilities across the Bay, according to the province’s health portfolio committee. → Read More
Murder, violent crime up in Nelson Mandela Bay
Kwazakhele and Bethelsdorp policing precincts are among the top 20 most dangerous places to live in SA. → Read More
Colleagues remember ‘woman of courage’
When Sisanda Fani’s attackers shot her in the head they took a mother, a sister and a friend – they also took a medic, a woman who on hundreds of emergency calls was the one calming people down and keeping them going until help arrived. → Read More
VIDEO | Tears of joy after family reunited with missing woman after four years
Four years after a woman disappeared from Middelburg without a trace, she was miraculously reunited with her family on Wednesday. → Read More
Dead newborn found at Arlington tip
The body of a newborn baby was found in a black bag at Arlington tip on Wednesday afternoon. → Read More
Fire victims get helping hand from SAPS
Port Elizabeth police's K9 unit brought some joy on Tuesday night to a Walmer township family who lost everything when their house burned down on Monday afternoon. → Read More
Long-delayed Provincial Hospital acute psych unit back on track
After missing five deadlines to open an acute psychiatric unit at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital, the department of health claims to have got the ball rolling again. → Read More
Services that will be provided by the NHI’s “basket”
Department of health deputy director-general Dr Anban Pillay said if the NHI did not pay for a procedure or consultation, a patient may self-fund or go to an alternative private funder. → Read More
Facility ‘will boost medical tourism’
Ear, nose and throat surgeon and newly qualified facial plastic surgeon Dr Cameron MacIntosh said he would forge ahead with plans to build a day hospital in Park Drive despite the NHI. → Read More
Experts weigh in on NHI
Speculation, fears, elation and apprehension over the National Health Insurance (NHI) system followed the tabling of the new bill. → Read More
Health officials scramble for solution to shortage of depression and anxiety medications
With the most widely used antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills out of stock – and not enough doctors to change prescriptions to alternative medicines – Nelson Mandela Bay patients face a crisis as the national health department scrambles to find a solution. → Read More
‘Fake papers sold to refugees’
Fake lawyers charging R2,000 for an appointment and forged protection letters sold at R450 a document are some of the concerns raised by the Refugee Rights Centre regarding the alleged exploitation of refugees in the city. → Read More
Hospital care in East Cape not ideal, says MEC
The Eastern Cape health MEC has conceded that patients at public hospitals in the province are not always receiving “the most ideal level of care”. → Read More
Shooters take out one person a day in crime ridden Port Elizabeth
One person is shot dead every day in Nelson Mandela Bay while three children suffer the same fate every month. → Read More
Nearly half of grade 2 pupils can’t read
Almost half of grade 2 pupils in the Eastern Cape cannot read a single word – and 52% of grade 1s cannot identify the sound of even one letter. → Read More
Body of newborn found in Summerstrand
The police have asked the public's help after a newborn baby was found dumped in a rubbish bin Summerstrand on Sunday morning. → Read More
Farewell to tiny victim left to die
As Pieter Uithaler bent over Joneyano Gallant’s tiny white casket his tears fell on the wood. → Read More
Model’s body ‘forgot how to breathe’
Recalling the fear and his overwhelming feeling of powerlessness, the brother of a young Port Elizabeth teacher and model this week told how a mysterious illness caused his sister’s body to forget how to breathe. → Read More
VIDEO | Doctor pops into art shop for parts to make girl’s ears
A quick trip to Crafty Arts provided plastic surgeon Dr Konrad Hoekstra with the building blocks for making a pair of new ears for a girl who was born without them. → Read More
Judges blast East Cape hospitals
In an unusual move, five judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal have asked health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize to intervene and urgently address the dire situation in the Eastern Cape’s public hospitals. → Read More