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Not time to put EC health department under administration: Zweli Mkhize

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Though the question of whether the Eastern Cape health department should be placed under administration has come up in parliament, health minister Zweli Mkhize says he is “not yet there”.

“What we believe needed to be done was to reinforce the department and deal with specific things.

The Eastern Cape department of health has come under fire in recent weeks, with both the DA and EFF saying Gomba needed to be replaced. Livingstone Hospital’s passages were strewn with rubbish, bloodied bedsheets were not washed and a report showed that screening protocols were not being adequately followed.

Mkhize also instructed the provincial health department to provide daily updates on Covid-19 deaths.On Tuesday, it emerged that almost 100 people had died from Covid-19 in the city since the start of July — an average of close to five a day.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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