The Democratic Alliance DA has called on the Director-General of Health to immediately intervene into the doctor shortage issues at Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape.
The DA says since Monday, the Surgery Department at Livingstone Hospital has been forced to shut down for all outpatient clinics.
The DA says this follows the Eastern Cape Department of Healths 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 stabilize healthcare services in this province, DA Shadow MEC for health, Jane Powley explains.
