The Public Protector’s investigation looked at the administration, management and responsiveness of certain hospitals to thepandemic.
Random interviews were conducted with medical and nursing staff organised labour and patients as part of the probe.Gcaleka said the investigations confirmed that the administrative deficiencies at the Gauteng Department of Health had led to systemic challenges in the delivery of primary healthcare services at all the hospitals visited.
Jubilee Hospital was also found to have allegedly failed to provide evidence that it had complied with the directive for staff members who contracted Covid-19 to be granted special leave upon application as claimed by the organised labour. However, the report highlighted that this fault was not squarely of its doing; in fact, it was due to the limited delegation given to the hospital chief executive as well as centralisation of procurement and ineffective supply chain management unit within the provincial Health Department.A lack of contract management in respect of waste disposal at George Mukhari Hospital also resulted in the service provider benefiting for four years without a competitive bidding process being undertaken.
The report also pointed towards the ineffective communication of the risk strategy to all officials employed by the hospital. In respect to Jubilee Hospital, the acting head of the provincial Department of Health, Dr Sibongile Zungu, was instructed to ensure that steps were taken to ensure there was compliance with testing turnaround times of specimens and for the hospital to be provided with additional fleet vehicles from the department in instances where it was allocated high volumes of goods.
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