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Health, Health Systems

Health-e News broke the story of the Eastern Cape's Village Clinic in 2012. Ntsiki Mpulo re-visists the clinic for the NSP Review and finds upgrades to the clinic remain long overdue.

Ntsiki Mpulo
October 30, 2015

Temporary clinic leaves patients soggy

Health, News, Our Health

More than a year after poor conditions at Lusikisiki’s beleaguered Village Clinic thrust it into national headlines, problems continue to plague the clinic.

tandekahlongwane
May 19, 2014

Protesting villagers get their medicine

Health, Our Health

More than fifty regular patients at the Village Clinic in the OR Tambo District had a sit-in at the clinic when they were told that their Efavirenz tablets – an anti-retroviral drug for HIV-positive patients – was not available.

mtshanamvlisi
July 10, 2013

Stockouts continue

Our Health

Patients and nurses particularly in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Mpumalanga continue to report medicine stock-outs at local clinics, including shortages of antiretroviral medicine.

mishackmahlangu, mishackmahlangu, mishackmahlangu and mishackmahlangu
July 9, 2013

Village Clinic: TAC pressure sees minister step in

Health Systems, Our Health

Ongoing pressure and threatened litigation from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has led to the construction of a temporary clinic in Lusikisiki and confirmed plans to build a permanent state-of-the-art day hospital.

mtshanamvlisi and mtshanamvlisi
July 8, 2013

No progress on Village Clinic

Health Systems, Our Health

The Lusikisiki community waited in vain last week for a much-anticipated sod turning ceremony, the first promised step towards the new Village Clinic building. According to community members and activists Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana had promised to kick off the…

Mtshana Mvlisi
June 3, 2013

Clinics without family planning injections

Health Systems, Our Health, Women's Health

LUSIKISIKI. - All twelve clinics in the Qaukeni sub-district here have had no family planning injections since December last year.

tandekahlongwane
April 25, 2013

E Cape patients protest over poor service

Health Systems, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. ' Patients and community members from this Eastern Cape village clashed with police during a march to the local office of the Department of Health where they delivered a memorandum of grievances about the health services in the area.

mtshanamvlisi
February 8, 2013

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