Despite some interventions by Mpumalanga's health department, a litany of challenges at hospitals in the province continues to hamstring quality patient care.
Healthcare users who depend on ambulances, for example, must make do with only 58 of 98 ambulances that are in working condition.
The doctor added that some were also performing remunerative work outside public service without approval.National health department avails 126 more mental health professionals The doctor added there was a severe lack of human resource management as well as strong, disciplined management at most hospitals, saying there was no consequence management or follow-up when doctors were negligent.
"The department is open to receiving anonymous tips to follow up on doctors abusing the RWOPS approval and doing private work during their normal working." There was also a CEO position at Matikwana Hospital that was vacant and recruitment processes have begun, according to the department. He said the department was now putting in place measures to ensure weekend operations at Tonga Hospital and other hospitals conducting cataract operations are taking place.
According to the department, security at hospitals and clinics was the mandate of the Department of Community Safety and Transport.The health and social services committee's draft report noted only 55 ambulances out of a fleet of 98 were working.The report also noted the department leased a helicopter and transported 71 patients at a cost of more than R4.1 million in the first quarter of this financial year.
"When such a problem is highlighted to senior management, they just tell the doctors to keep writing in the file that they are waiting for transfer or if the patient was not accepted for transfer to just document the situation in the file," said the doctor.The report also noted the department had"consistently failed to ensure the target of 95% availability of medicine and surgical sundries at the medical depot".
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