TERMINAL HEALTHCARE | A Daily Dispatch exclusive investigation

Nurses refuse to help sick, wounded

Eastern Cape health authorities are investigating a claim that a sick woman was turned away from a rural clinic after ...

By BONGANI FUZILE

Injured die on Eastern Cape roads because of EMS problems

Critically injured people are dying by the roadside because the state’s emergency medical services division in the ...

By BONGANI FUZILE

Eastern Cape patients suffer as departments feud over money

Two Eastern Cape departments are at war over issues that include unpaid bills, mounting interest that runs to millions, ...

By BONGANI FUZILE

Taxis demand huge fees from the elderly desperate for transport to health ...

Getting an ambulance to fetch patients in some rural areas is so improbable that people do not even know how to call ...

By BONGANI FUZILE

Ambulances in repair shops for months waiting for invoices to be paid

“Most of these ambulances are new and have not reached 30,000km on the clock. They would have taken a day to be fixed ...

By Bongani Fuzile

Health department admits: it's true, we have no ...

It is true, says the Eastern Cape health department, state hospitals are horribly overcrowded and there are not enough ...

By BONGANI FUZILE

WATCH | Health is hell for nurses and doctors as ...

Patients, doctors, nurses, workers and student nurses who spoke to the Dispatch investigation team, all describe their ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA

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