'Drunk' PE hospital clerk suspended pending investigation

📆 2019/04/30 12:30:00
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An admissions clerk who appeared drunk in a video taken at Port Elizabeth's Livingstone hospital has been placed on precautionary suspension pending an investigation.

that the employee would be issued with disciplinary charges on Tuesday.

The video shows how a woman tries to get him to open a file for a patient who was being treated in the “physician on call” section of the emergency room. Instead of opening a file the man offers to “go check on the patient”. “Why?” the woman is heard asking. “Are you a doctor?” “No I am not a doctor,” the man can be heard slurring.

“The employee is not allowed within the hospital premises unless he has been authorised by the employer but has to be available anytime when needed for the investigation,” he said.

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suspension is just a n other word for paid leave

What investigation? The one on the video isn't enough 😔

Admissions clerk 'Drunk' on duty at Livingstone Hospital. Now suspended on full pay with benefits, pending a disciplinary hearing.. With unemployment rates so high, one would expect a person to value their job.

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