Another week, another crisis – actually three crises – for the failing Gauteng health department. This week it’s a biological waste management catastrophe, food shortages for patients and the termination of more than 800 critical staff posts.
A skip filled with medical waste beside a road at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital on 9 March 2022. questions, the Gauteng health department said “the post of the CFO has been advertised, interviews conducted, competency test concluded, security vetting concluded. What remains is the sign-off of the certificate by State Security Agency.”
A senior clinician said they’re being told “contingency stories”. He added: “When we ask what we are going to do about the medical waste problem we’re told Bara has a cooler – so it means people’s amputated legs will be thrown into this cooler instead of being disposed of – it is ludicrous. We have capacity for only one more week to store medical waste.”
Professor Adam Mahomed, head of internal medicine at the hospital, said: “These boxes are now just pushed to a corner and kept in the different wards and there is rotting human tissue and blood in them, so it has started to smell and is becoming a hazard for patients and staff.” Buhle Waste’s Sekete added: “It seems that Buhle is being threatened with legal action for not being paid for the services we have rendered.” He said the relationship has become marked by non-communication from the department, endless waiting and now the threat of legal action.
DA health spokesperson Jack Bloom said the financial year has for years begun with having to settle accruals of “well over R100-million”. March “is always called the ‘dry season’ when payments get deferred and services get disrupted. It means each financial year starts with historical bad debt eating into the budget. It’s poor financial planning and bad management and to solve this we need to start employing people in the department who are fit for purpose.
In the Covid-19 response plan, 8,000 temporary posts were created in the province for two years. The Gauteng health department received R2.2-billion for employee compensation. This was reduced to R1.1-billion for the 2022/23 financial year.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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