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2010/08/11

P Masualle hands over clinic to Khotyana village

MEC for health Phumulo Masualle officially handed over a clinic to the community of Khotyana village in Xhorha on Thursday 5 August 2010.

More than 500 people attended the ceremony that marked the end to their long wait for the delivery of health services to their door step.  The ceremony was attended by traditional leaders, religious leaders, health department officials, education department officials, community development workers, non-governmental ... [highlighted result]

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2010/06/11

P Masualle opens Agnes Rest clinic in Lady Frere

The MEC for Health, Phumulo Masualle, officially opened the Agnes Rest clinic in Lady Frere on 10 June 2010.With a population of 4 187, the clinic encourages community ownership and nurses, doctors and physicians of that area come to plough back to the clinic.The utilisation rate of the clinic is low but there is hope that it will be better through the Health Seeking Behaviour campaign. The clinic has had no multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensive drug resistant (XDR) ... [highlighted result]

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2010/06/11

P Masualle on ambulances from Fleet Africa

The department moved a step closer to bringing relief to needy communities around the province by receiving 31 ambulances from Fleet Africa on 9 June 2010 at the emergency medical services base in East London.Dr Beja, who is acting General Manager of Clinical Support Services said the purpose of the handover by Fleet Africa was mainly to bring relief and especially to the MEC who often has sleepless nights during the festive season and especially with the coming 2010 World Cup ... [highlighted result]

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2010/05/24

P Masualle to open Accident and Emergency unit at Livingstone hospital, 3 Jun

The Honourable MEC for Health, Mr P Masualle and Superintendent-General, Dr S Pillay will be officially opening the Accident and Emergency unit at Livingstone hospital in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.The department will also be introducing HCT within the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro and commemorating the lives of those who passed on due to HIV.Date: 3 June 2010
Venue: Livingstone hall, Livingstone hospital, Port Elizabeth
Time: 09h30 for 10h00Contact... [highlighted result]

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2010/04/21

P Masualle: Eastern Cape Health Prov Budget Vote 2010/11

The department has established a MDR TB Review Board with the responsibility to overseer all the issues pertaining to our MDR TB patients.Honourable Speaker, the whole health system needs great overhauling and transformation to provide accessible quality services that are founded on Primary Health Care approach. This decentralised management system is part of the plan to strengthen our public health system at all levels.We have commenced a concerted drive to recruit the required... [highlighted result]

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2009/12/15

P Masualle delivers end of year message

I take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a glorious festive season and a splendid New Year.I would have loved to deliver this message personally to all of you during our annual end of year function, but due to financial constraints and our commitment to serving our people at all times, it makes it impossible for us to meet.We are still reeling from the effects of the recession which we faced as a country and we should thus lead by example and not splurge the ... [highlighted result]

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2009/11/06

P Masualle on hospital construction

Two months ago Health MEC Phumulo Masualle did not think the shoddy construction work at a Transkei hospital would ever be fixed. Masualle visited the hospital in August and was shocked to discover that construction work, which started in 2003, had still not been completed.And at that time Holy Cross only had two doctors on staff. The project was then handed over to another contractor, Amangcoya Construction Company, to complete the job.
Initially the Department of Health set ... [highlighted result]

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2009/10/23

P Masualle visits Livingstone Hospital

The hospital management was quickly summoned and a stretcher was made available and the MEC and his staff helped the patient onto the stretcher into the hospital for attendance. The disease burden meant that patients spent more days in hospital which added to the overcrowding, management added.The MEC addressed the patients at the hospital and assured them that the situation would be sorted out. Media reports had reported that the Hospital management had released dangerous TB patients ... [highlighted result]

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2009/10/15

P Masualle addresses people's legislature

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health, Mrs Violet Mtongana, tabled a report on visits undertaken by the committee to hospitals in the OR Tambo district between 5 and 9 October 2009.The agenda set out for the Portfolio Committee on Health was to visit hospitals prior to the institutional programme known as Taking Legislature to the People . The hospitals visited were Isilimela, Holy Cross, St Lucy s, Zithulele, Bambisana, Siphethu Nessie Knight and St Barnabas.... [highlighted result]

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2009/07/17

P Masualle on EXCO outreach programme

The honourable MEC for Health Mr Phumulo Masualle accompanied by departmental officials visited health facilities around the Nelson Mandela Municipality on 15 July 2009.The visit by MEC Masualle was part of the ongoing Provincial Exco outreach programme. The MEC visited Livingstone, Dora Nginza hospital and Empilweni TB hospital. Masualle visited the construction site at Livingstone to observe the building of the emergency and trauma unit that is currently being built within the ... [highlighted result]

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2009/07/13

P Masualle on opening of rural clinics

Excitement was written all over the faces of the residents of Sheperds Hope when the Honourable MEC for health Mr Pumulo Masualle officially opened Sheperds Hope Clinic in Matatiele on the 10 July 2009.Sheperds Hope Clinic is situated on the very cold mountains range with an inaccessible rough ragged road that winds above Kenerha River and is 35 km from Matatiele.This community previously accessed health services by renting premises from the Roman Catholic Mission which is ... [highlighted result]

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2009/07/03

P Masualle on rural clinic opening

But MEC Masualle warned the community to safeguard the clinic with their lives, while urging Eastern Cape Department of Health officials to ensure that the clinic is fully staffed, fully equipped and most importantly always have enough stock of medicines and drugs. This clinic must be an example to other clinics and it must provide the services it is meant to provide that means people are not supposed to travel to other far facilities again just because they are told there are no ... [highlighted result]

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2009/06/23

P Masualle: Eastern Cape Health Budget Speech 2009/10

The department s task therefore, is to strengthen districts as the health authorities responsible for health services in line with the District Health System.

The Department will continue to interact with its social partners through the Provincial Health Council, District Health Councils and Provincial Health Consultative Forum. These structures are established through the National Health Act.Honourable Speaker, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical arm of health ... [highlighted result]

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2009/06/18

P Masualle on illegal circumcision schools

Eastern Cape Health MEC Pumulo Masualle is to meet traditional leaders over what his department said on Wednesday was the mushrooming" of illegal circumcision schools in the province.Department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said that last weekend over a hundred under age boys were illegally circumcised in the Pondoland area. A youth who died in hospital last Friday after being rescued from a school by department officials, and another died at a school earlier last week. Kupelo said ... [highlighted result]

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2009/02/27

P Masualle: Eastern Cape Appropriation Bill 2009/10

This includes more than R267 million to the industrial development zones, R333 million to Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC), and R50 million for cooperatives development. The strategic and regulatory departments within the provincial government, the Office of the Premier, Provincial Treasury, the Department of Local Government, the Department of Economic Development and Environment, supported by Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council (ECSECC), should be at the centre of ... [highlighted result]

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2002/05/24

Masualle: Eastern Cape Technikon graduation ceremony

Inspired by the extent to which Institutions of Higher Learning like the Eastern Cape Technikon and other Institutions have embraced social transformation we sure are going to overcome the challenges we have mentioned supra. This institution through its department of civil engineering which, I believe, is the oldest department of this institution can certainly play a leading role in helping realise this objective. From being an extension of a branch of another institution into being a ... [highlighted result]

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2002/05/10

Masualle: Answers to questions on E Cape Roads and Public Works

1. What action is his department taking to address the condition of roads in the rural areas of the province with specific reference to (a) tarring of access roads and (b) repair of potholes? The Department of Roads and Public Works is charged with the constitutional responsibility of providing and maintaining provincial infrastructure. Mr Speaker, the majority of roads that we are going to be doing this financial year, are rural roads. [highlighted result]

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2001/06/26

Masualle: Media briefing on Roads and Public Works in the Eastern Cape

* Make greater impact on infrastructure development * Make significant strides in alleviating Poverty through poverty alleviation programmes. * The road from Engcobo to Ugie proceeds through the forestry and Agricultural rich area of Ugie. However, there are still some glaring constraints that the department is experiencing in its endeavour to make meaningful impact in the development project in our province. [highlighted result]

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2001/06/13

Middelburg, Eastern Cape, residents raise concerns to MEC Masualle

Mixed feelings marked the Middelburg visit of the Roads and Public Works MEC, Pumulo Masualle, during the Government Outreach Programme visit to the Mid Karoo. Gangsterism, it was revealed, had taken its toll on the community with a group called 'Mafokong' dominating the streets and virtually the lives of the people in this community. In his response the MEC encouraged the community to strengthen the Community Policing Forum (CPF). [highlighted result]

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2001/03/28

Masualle launches Emerging Contractor Development Programme

GREAT opportunities await emerging contractors as the Department of Roads and Public Works takes ground-breaking steps in ensuring that they not only access the mainstream economic activity, but also prove that they are capable of participating and contributing positively to the socio economic development of the South Africa. This became apparent today (28 March 2001) when Roads and Public Works MEC, Phumulo Masualle, launched the Emerging Contractor Development Programme (ECDP) in Bisho, ... [highlighted result]

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