The South African Medical Association is alarmed at the severe lack of leadership in the Eastern Cape Department of Health which is compounding problems in the delivery of healthcare in the province.
The organisation claims almost all critical posts at institutional and provincial level have no permanently employed leaders and this is putting enormous strain on already overworked doctors, and insufficiently resourced hospitals.
Its worried provincial Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba is not providing no clarity on future funding for doctors and nurses to care for patients who occupy those beds.