The Gauteng Department of Health held disciplinary hearings in connection with 111 incidents where employment was offered for sale at the Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto. Jack Bloom, DA’s spokesperson for health in Gauteng, said the shocking announcement was made in Gauteng by Ms. Gwen Ramokgopa in response to a question Bloom had addressed to..
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Vacant positions at The Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto apparently sells for money and sex
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The National Health Insurance (NHI): Who’s in, who’s out and how much will it cost
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The NHI was the centre of this weekend’s Presidential Health Summit. Now the pressure is mounting for Treasury to figure out how to fund it.
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A few things the Gauteng health department spent your money on
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A Special Investigation Unit (SIU) report released this week provides new details more than R1.2-billion in graft at the Gauteng health department — from limousine-chauffeured luxury spa treatments to jobs for cash.
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Limos & spas:- Hlongwa’s role in R1.2b graft
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When he was the Gauteng Health MEC, Brian Hlongwa brought the department to its knees, the Special Investigations Unit has found.
Limousine-chauffeured luxury spa treatments, blatant graft and jobs for cash are just some of the allegedly corrupt activities the ANC’s Gauteng chief whip Brian Hlongwa and his staff were involved in, according to a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) report released today.
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Dr Aaron Motsoaledi calls for the arrest of violent hospital protesters
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Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has condemned violence and disorder perpetrated by staff members at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, protesting against the non-payment of performance bonuses, saying the attack on the sick and vulnerable is unacceptable, and called for the arrest of perpetrators.
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Cancer crisis: Where are South Africa’s radiation oncologists?
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Everyone knows about KZN’s cancer crisis but no one is talking about the other provinces that operate on just one radiation oncologist – or less…
There is not a single radiation oncologist left in Limpopo or Mpumalanga, according to an annual survey conducted by the South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology.
In fact, half the country’s provinces may be relying on just nine radiation oncologists in Gauteng as cancer services in five provinces buckle.
Geen oortydbetaling vir dokters in Gauteng
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Die departement van gesondheid in Gauteng moet dringend verduidelik waarom dokters nie oortydbetaling ontvang nie en dit so vinnig as moontlik regstel, het die Demokratiese Alliansie Sondag gesê.
Talle dokters by Gauteng-staatshospital word nie vir oortydwerk betaal nie en het gehoor dat die departement “nie geld het om hulle te betaal nie”, het Jack Bloom, woordvoerder vir die DA, gesê. “Ek het berigte ontvang dat dokters by Tembisa, Leratong en Yusuf Dadoo-hospitale, en moontlik ook by ander hospitale, nie oortydbetaling ontvang nie,” het hy verduidelik.
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No money for #LifeEsidimeni, but millions for consultants
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The Gauteng health department spent tens of millions of rands on consultants —including the controversial McKinsey & Company firm — even as it said it could no longer afford to pay for patient care at Life Esidimeni facilities, Gauteng finance MEC Barbara Creecy has revealed.
For almost three years, a trio of now-former Gauteng health officials have told the same story.
Former MEC Qedani Mahlangu, department head Barney Selebano and mental health director Makgabo Manamela have all said that the tight budgets and growing auditor-general concerns about the Life Esidimeni contract forced them to cancel the department’s decades-old agreement with the private healthcare provider. The division of private hospital group Life Healthcare cared for almost 1700 state patients, many of whom were placed with deadly NGOs after the contract ended.
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Sheriff seizes more furniture, equipment from Gauteng health department
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The Gauteng health department has had more of its furniture seized to settle debts owed to companies, the DA said on Tuesday. “The furniture removal man said he has got instructions to take what he has to take. There’s chairs, computers, fans and there is even a fridge. It is ridiculous,” DA Gauteng spokesperson for..
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Life Esidimeni: How good people come to do very bad things
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Arbitration reveals the skeletons in the Gauteng health department’s closet culture that gave rise to 141 deaths and continues to thrive. Levy Mosenogi could be described like many men who throughout history who have ended up on its bad side: a religious man and active in his community by his own account during his recent..
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