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BusinessLive reports that Eastern Cape health MEC Sindiswa Gomba summoned hospital bosses to a meeting in East London on Tuesday to figure out how to improve the services provided by state facilities.
The Eastern Cape health department faces a high number of medical negligence claims and in 2017/2018 paid out more R876.7m to successful claimants, or 32% of the national total. In a statement issued on Monday, the Eastern Cape health department’s spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, said Gomba and the hospital CEOs would be discussing staff shortages, staff attitudes to patients, and the cleanliness of facilities. He went on to indicate: “The critical meeting with the hospital bosses is meant to come up with tangible and feasible solutions to how the province can turn [around] the state of public health care. While the department has been filling vacancies, there is still a serious need for more staff. Without doctors, nurses, cleaners, porters, general workers and other staffers, our health system would be crippled.” Kupelo said the MEC would also brief the hospital CEOs on the recent executive council lekgotla resolutions and programme to accelerate service delivery. “The MEC wants every health-care worker in the province to dedicate themselves into serving our people with dignity, care and compassion,” he stated.
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