Operation Smile returns to Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha to offer free, life-changing cleft lip and palate surgeries for children and adults across the Eastern Cape.
Health authorities are investigating a gastroenteritis outbreak at Rhodes University in Makhanda, after preliminary water tests detected E. coli and over 100 people reported falling ill.
In rural Bhaziya near Mthatha, an innovative healthcare project is using quad bikes and overhead drone surveillance to deliver chronic medication directly to patients' homes, sparing vulnerable villagers exhausting 40km treks to the clinic.
A multimillion-rand medical negligence payout at Mthatha General Hospital highlights the painful balance between compensating victims and protecting South Africa's strained public healthcare system.
The Eastern Cape health department is seeking to negotiate payment terms after the Bhisho High Court ordered it to pay over R15m to a child left disabled during birth at Mthatha General Hospital.
