{"id":258845,"date":"2023-05-02T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mec-saddened-by-death-of-young-medical-student-in-mthatha\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:03:33","slug":"mec-saddened-by-death-of-young-medical-student-in-mthatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mec-saddened-by-death-of-young-medical-student-in-mthatha\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC saddened by death of young medical student in Mthatha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202305\/stetoscopesnipped.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Nomakhosazana Meth, says she has learnt with shock the tragic passing of a young and promising final-year Cuban medical student, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to the provincial department, the 28-year-old female was involved in a car accident in Mthatha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe succumbed to her injuries at the Nelson Mandela Academic Central Hospital,\u201d a statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the student was with other medical students and a medical intern doctor when the accident happened.<\/p>\n<p>The student who is originally from Bojanala Health District in the North West, had completed five years of medical training in Cuba as part of the Nelson Mandela- Fidel Castro programme.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of her passing, she was doing her final year at Walter Sisulu Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>The MEC has sent her heartfelt condolences to the medical student&#8217;s family and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reeling in shock as we were still expecting a lot from this brilliant young mind. The health sector is poorer without her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel the pain that her family is feeling. In her, we have lost a promising doctor who would have contributed to our relentless efforts to deliver quality health and care services to our people. May her young soul rest in peace,\u201d she said. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Cape MEC for Health, Nomakhosazana Meth, says she has learnt with shock the tragic passing of a young and promising final-year Cuban medical student, over the weekend. According to the provincial department, the 28-year-old female was involved in a car accident in Mthatha. \u201cShe succumbed to her injuries at the Nelson Mandela Academic Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-258845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mec-saddened-by-death-of-young-medical-student-in-mthatha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}