Four paramedics have been fired by the Eastern Cape health department for serious misconduct, the department said on Wednesday. "The officials were accused of various charges including having sex with a patient in an ambulance, mismanagement of patients, taking fake sick leave in order to go and work for a private company, fraud and patient neglect which resulted in death of patients," spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo told News24. "The official accused of sex in an ambulance was found not guilty … [Read more...] about Four Eastern Cape health department paramedics fired and three suspended
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East Cape Health Department Must Eradicate Injustice
The Democratic Alliance is dismayed with the commentary given by the Department of Health spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, to the release of the Humans Rights Watch report on maternal health care and mortality rates in South Africa which highlights the Eastern Cape as the worst of the worst. The maternal and infant mortality rates seen in the Eastern Cape would have shocked officials even several decades ago and the assumption can be made that the department of health is allowing health care in … [Read more...] about East Cape Health Department Must Eradicate Injustice
