Dr ZweliMkhize visited Northdale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg where Sibusiso Khumalo, 67, died while he was in a makeshift ward, which was erected in a parking lot and whose condition was apparently substandard. COVID19
Durban - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has read the riot act to health management that they will be held accountable for the shoddy job such as that led to the recent death of a patient at a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal who was kept a in a “ shabby shack tent.”
Mkhize was on Saturday concluding his three-day visit to the province to inspect health facilities’ state of readiness for the expected surge of Covid-19 infections. On his last leg he visited Northdale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg where Sibusiso Khumalo, 67, died late last week while he was in a makeshift ward, which was erected in a parking lot and whose condition was apparently substandard. It is believed that he had been encountering breathing problems.
“The management across the country needs to know that they are going to be accountable, they are going to take responsibility for the good and the bad that they do,” said Mkhize. It’s really all upto us as South Africans to turn this situation around. We end our visit to KZN, I am convinced the province is ready. The preparation of beds etc. is in place. Where there are weaknesses we need quick action and responsiveness.
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