Busisiwe Mkhwebane says public health facilities are not working within legal and constitutional frameworks.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and Deputy Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka on Friday released findings from their own initiated investigation of public hospitals in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Their investigation found that the provision and administration of health services by all the provincial departments of health and the hospitals they visited did not accord with the obligations imposed by the Constitution and the law.that the health facilities were “definitely” in violation of South Africans’ rights, saying, “The reports make no bones about the fact that the conduct of the respective provincial health departments are in violation of, among other prescripts, Section 27 and .
According to the report, systemic deficiencies include “delays in the distribution of PPE to the hospital, shortage of certain items of PPE such as N95 masks and delays in the testing turnaround time.At Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, the systemic deficiencies included the late creation of staff positions and the failure of the hospital to pay contracted Covid-19 healthcare workers.
At Steve Biko Academic Hospital, a Department of Infrastructure Development report revealed that the roof of the health facility leaked. The report states: “It was established that the delays in the procurement of medical equipment were as a result of limited delegation to the CEO, as well as centralisation of procurement and the ineffective… SCM unit with the department.”The Public Protector stated that within 60 days of the report, the
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