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Ill-spent: The Eastern Cape Health Department has been accused of diverting money away from hospitals, such as the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital.

Hawks probe R111m hospital fraud

The Eastern Cape health department is accused of diverting money meant for clinics

One person has died as a result of injuries sustained when a temporary scaffolding collapsed at a concert at the Cape Town Stadium due to high winds.

Medics ‘sabotaged’ E Cape health

The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.

E Cape health coalition wants premier to intervene

The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition wants to approach the premier to intervene in its call for action to improve the healthcare system.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo: File

Motsoaledi orders Eastern Cape to start over

Hospitals and clinics are to be demolished and rebuilt to reboot the Eastern Cape’s "broken" health system.

Comment: Clinic victory – A shot in the arm for people’s rights

If the community stays vigilant, lives will be improved for many years.

Motsoaledi forms task team to probe E Cape health care

The growing health crisis in the E Cape has forced Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to intervene by commissioning a task team to investigate.

Comment: Eastern Cape, heal thy nurses

At the coalface of care, nurses are bearing the brunt of the province’s critical shortages.

Eastern Cape health MEC Sicelo Gqobana. (GCIS)

Eastern Cape health access ‘made to look like a privilege’

Advocacy groups are due to march to the Eastern Cape’s health MEC as part of a campaign against a "crisis" in health care access in the province.