Psychiatrist Says EC’s mental health sector needs help
Rangaka was speaking at a meeting of the provincial branch of Sasop over the weekend where he said the Eastern Cape, whose leaders were at the forefront of the liberation struggle, had been dogged by inordinate poverty, under-development, socio-economic deprivation, infrastructural deterioration and administrative incompetence.
He said Sasop continual ly received complaints about under- staffing at the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital’s (CMH) mental health unit, Dora Nginza Hospital and the Elizabeth Donkin Psychiatric Hospital in Port Elizabeth, and the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in Fort Beaufort, which does not have a single psychiatrist on its staff.
