Two organisations in the Eastern Cape are demanding that the provincial Health Department account for the deaths and lack of services at its facilities, which they say are on the brink of collapse.
The Treatment Action Campaign and the Igazi Foundation have given the Health Department until July 21 to respond to their demands.
The organisations have asked the department to provide them with a detailed report on their investigation into the Dora Nginza Hospital, where a number of maternal and child deaths have occurred this year. This follows a report by BBC News that exposed the atrocious conditions at hospitals in the province.
They want to see the department's plans for additional bed capacity to respond to the coronavirus pandemic as well as information pertaining to the opening of field hospitals, including their bed and staffing capacities and costs of management.
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