CHEMOTHERAPY CHAOS Nelson Mandela Bay hospital patients left in the lurch after health department’s bureaucratic bungle 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
MEDICAL EMERGENCY Food poisoning source not yet identified at Mthatha school after 169 fall ill 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
MEDICAL MIRACLE Cutting-edge kidney transplant saves Nelson Mandela Bay man’s life 5 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
NEWSFLASH Stolen Dora Nginza Hospital babies found safe, but questions remain about safety measures at hospital 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
COLD CASE Majority of Eastern Cape state morgues in a shocking condition, health inspectors find 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
SPOTLIGHT Under siege — healthcare suffers, workers living in fear as criminals target Nelson Mandela Bay clinics 7 min 1 By Luvuyo Mehlwana for Spotlight
FINANCIAL FLATLINE Eastern Cape health department admits it can’t pay overtime to doctors, nurses until new financial year 5 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
BHEKISISA Eastern Cape health chief Rolene Wagner lets us in on the family secrets 12 min 0 By Sean Christie
RESCUE BID Respected Eastern Cape health chief Rolene Wagner returns to post after government ‘intervention’ 4 min 15 By Estelle Ellis
NELSON MANDELA BAY Health Minister, Ombud outraged after death of teen told by nurses to walk to police station after gang rape 5 min 22 By Estelle Ellis
HEALTHCARE CRISIS Accreditation chaos prompts trainee specialists to abandon Eastern Cape state hospitals 6 min 3 By Estelle Ellis
HEALTHCARE BUNGLE Eastern Cape health MEC reports call centre managers to the Public Service Commission over lapsed licences 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
COLLECTIVE IMPROVEMENT Eastern Cape Health MEC asks community to guard new R680-million Sipetu Hospital against protection rackets 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Stoma patients suffer indignity and pain due to maladministration, corruption and health department uninterest 10 min 4 By Mark Heywood
MEDICINE STOCKOUTS Eastern Cape state haematology units hit by severe shortage of chemotherapy drugs 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
PUBLIC HEALTH Eastern Cape’s Dora Nginza Hospital besieged by a rat infestation 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
PLIGHT OF THE IMMOBILE ‘It is not nice being me’ — more than 5,000 people in Eastern Cape wait for wheelchairs 5 min 1 By Estelle Ellis, Hoseya Jubase and Siyabonga Kamnqa
EASTERN CAPE ORTHOPAEDIC CRISIS Ten years – that’s how long East London patients can expect to wait for knee or hip replacement surgery 2 min 3 By Estelle Ellis
NEHAWU DEATH STRIKE DAY THREE Eastern Cape Health MEC obtains interdict against strikers as devastation continues at hospitals 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis, Hoseya Jubase and Tembile Sgqolana
HEALING MISSION Labour of love – what drives Mfundo Mabenge, the doctor who rescued a Nelson Mandela Bay maternity unit 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES Eastern Cape to face a second festive season without lifesaving ambulance helicopters 2 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
