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MOVING ON: For 10 years, Ben Gaunt led a team at the Zithulele Hospital who transformed the facility from a struggling government hospital into a poster child of excellence. In 2022, he resigned. Here Gaunt is in Zithulele’s waiting room in 2015.
BEN GAUNT

The cost of caring: Zithulele Hospital’s Ben Gaunt, one year later

In 2022, Ben Gaunt, who led a team who transformed Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape from a struggling public health facility into a poster child of excellence, resigned.…

  • Sean Christie
17 min read
A pharmacist does a stock take of antiretroviral drugs at the rural Emmaus Hospital, 20km from Bergville, Kwa Zulu/Natal. (Photo by Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ADEOLU APELEHIN

Emmaus Hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal is in ‘toxic meltdown’

Experienced doctors and nurses are quitting over adversarial management by the new medical manager and new chief executive

  • Chris Bateman
8 min read
The feuding clinical manager and chief executive of Zithulele Hospital, near Mthatha, were transferred on Thursday. (Simon Le Roux/Twitter)
BEN GAUNT

Warring Zithulele Hospital leaders transferred

This comes after recent protests by local residents demanding that the hospital’s new chief executive step down

  • Chris Bateman
6 min read
The feuding clinical manager and chief executive of Zithulele Hospital, near Mthatha, were transferred on Thursday. (Simon Le Roux/Twitter)
BEN GAUNT

Violence erupts during protest at strife torn Eastern Cape hospital

There have been several protests over the past few weeks, calling for the resignation of the new chief executive at Zithulele Hospital.

  • Chris Bateman
4 min read