After missing five deadlines to open an acute psychiatric unit at Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital, the Eastern Cape department of health finally opened the facility on Thursday, but it lacks a psychiatrist.
The Eastern Cape Health Department said no provision has been made for a psychiatrist post at the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital's new acute psychiatric unit, which took two years to be opened.
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