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SABC News reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on the Director-General of Health to immediately intervene in the doctor shortage issue at Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape.
According to the DA, since Monday the surgery department at the hospital has been shut for all outpatients. The party claimed that this followed the Eastern Cape Department of Health’s continued refusal to fill vacant doctor posts or provide adequate resources to frontline facilities. “This closure has massive implications for patients who depend on the state to provide them with medical services, the DA will continue to fight for critical doctor vacancies to be filled so that adequate healthcare services can resume. Failing that there has to be intervention at national level to stabilise healthcare services in this province,” DA Shadow MEC for health, Jane Powley indicated.
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