Patients ‘left on floors’ as court interdict sought to halt Dora Nginza Hospital strike

Daily Maverick | 11.04.2026 02:02
The Eastern Cape Department of Health has sought an urgent interdict to halt an unlawful strike at Dora Nginza Provincial Hospital in Gqeberha, after scores of patients were left unattended when protesting staff abandoned wards and hallways, leaving heavily pregnant women – some awaiting caesarean sections – without care.