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E Cape heath facing financial constraints: MEC

Phumza Dyantyi
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Outgoing Eastern Cape Health MEC, Dr Phumza Dyantyi, has cited financial constraints as a major factor in the problems faced by the health sector in the province.

She was speaking at the celebration of International Nurses Day at Quthubeni village near Ngcobo. The day is being celebrated across the globe on Saturday.

Dyantyi says the provincial department has a number of challenges.

“The biggest challenge that is not only facing the Department of Health, is the challenge of the fiscal cliff that has engulfed the whole world, particularly our country. We are not immune as the province… but needless to say that with the little that we have, we are trying to take the services to the people, the challenge of money causes us not build clinics as we would love, and as the community would love.”

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