Dear MyPE The DA has reliable information that alleges South Africa has a shortage 80,000 Professional Nurses (PN). This alarming news was provided by a senior confidential source part of the professional nursing community. This new figure is approximately double the estimated shortage of 44,780 (129,015 PNs were employed in 2015) identified as far back as 2010 by the Department of Health, which the University of the Witwatersand’s Professor Laetitia Rispel at the time referred as … [Read more...] about South Africa needs 80 000 Nurses
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Charges laid against Eastern Cape Health Department for occupational health violations
Dear MyPE Today, on behalf of the Democratic Alliance (DA), I laid charges, at the Humewood Police Station in Port Elizabeth, against Dr Phumza Dyantyi, the MEC for Health in the Eastern Cape Government. I was accompanied by Celeste Barker, MPL, the DA Eastern Cape spokesperson for Health and Franay van der Linde, Health representative on the PE Metro Municipality. The charges relate to violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) 85 of 1993 as well as of the National … [Read more...] about Charges laid against Eastern Cape Health Department for occupational health violations
DA to lay charges against Eastern Cape Health Department
Tomorrow, Wednesday 09 December, the Democratic Alliance Shadow Health Minister Dr Wilmot James MP will lay charges against the Eastern Cape Health Department. Dr James will be accompanied by MPL Celeste Barker, DA spokesperson for Health in the Eastern Cape and Councillor Franay van der Linde, DA health representative on the PE Metro Municipality. The charges relate to violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) 85 of 1993 at three of the department’s hospitals - … [Read more...] about DA to lay charges against Eastern Cape Health Department
Human Rights Commission must investigate Department of Education over collapsing schools in the Eastern Cape
Today I visited the Lovemore Park Farm School in the Eastern Cape. This school, just 15 minutes outside of Port Elizabeth, has been abandoned by the Department of Education, and is on the brink of collapse. The terrible conditions in which these children must endure is not only an infringement of their constitutional right to access education, but is also in clear violation of the constitution’s emphasis on the rights of the child being of paramount importance in all matters. For … [Read more...] about Human Rights Commission must investigate Department of Education over collapsing schools in the Eastern Cape
