Eastern Cape Department of Health – MEDIA ROOM – Press Releases – High innt deaths in ECapes OR Tambo region_health depar
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Eastern Cape Department of Health – MEDIA ROOM – Press Releases – High innt deaths in ECapes OR Tambo region_health depar，The average is 40.3 per 1000 deaths， not 430. The provincial death rate is 38 per 1000， said department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo.
The national office of the DA sought clarity on the matter from the provincial department， he said.
We have also learnt from this report that a mere 26 percent of the provinces budget was allocated to health work itself. A gross
The Eastern Cape health department had briefed Parliaments portfolio committee on health on the recent increase in innt mortality in the province， specifically in the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital.
Kupelo said his department had presented the correct figure in Parliament， but that someone somehow got the wrong figures.
It was irresponsible of the health department to not seek to rectify such a mistake in a report which was now in the public domain.
He cited HIV/Aids as being a major contributor to the number of deaths.
Pienaar said over-spending on employment was it impossible to invest in infrastructure and resources needed for quality healthcare.
We are living in a province where babies have to share incubators， officials are allegedly selling state drugs to bolster their income， ambulances do not come when they are called for and many mothers do not know their HIV status.
63 percent of it is allocated to the cost of employment.
There was an average of 40.3 innt talities per 1000 births in the OR Tambo region of the Eastern Cape， not 430 per 1000 as previously stated， the provincial health department said on Wednesday.
He called on the ANC-led government to tell us what it is going to do about this.
indicated that poor monitoring by the government could impact on mortality rates， specifically on child deaths， Pienaar said.
It just shows how incompetent they are， he said.
The rural nature of the area， social reasons like pregnant women being assaulted and women not going for HIV testing early enough also contributed to the high death rate.
The matter was clarified.
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Compared with the national figure of 18 per 1000 births， these statistics were shocking， sad and simply unacceptable， DA spokesman Pine Pienaar said.
The Eastern Capes average overall death rate was 38 deaths per 1000 births.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the province， quoting a report from the Parliamentary Monitoring Group， earlier issued a statement saying almost half the babies born in the provinces OR Tambo region died during birth.