The Mpumalanga government has resolved to install scanners, cameras and panic buttons in all health institutions following the murder of a patient at a Witbank hospital.
Premier Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane said the installations would start today to prevent more unfortunate incidents in health institutions, following the murder of a patient at Witbank General Hospital on Saturday.This triggered nurses and doctors to stage a protest over safety concerns.
“We know that this is not the first incident to take place in our health facilities, we have seen a number of incidents in our facilities. During the current budget which we just passed today , we had to start implementing upgrades in our hospitals. It’s unfortunate that the incident has caught up with us whilst we were in a process of upgrading security in our hospitals,” said Mtsweni-Tsipane.
She said the other problem they were facing was babies and medicines being stolen from health facilities. “That is something we condemn. We would also like to appeal to our communities to respect our personnel and also report anything uncalled for happening [in our institutions]. We can’t have our personnel attacked where they are trying to help the public. And we can’t have community members who come to seek health and end up coming out not breathing,” said Mtsweni-Tsipane.
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