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The Eastern Cape Department of Health has been ordered to immediately reinstate the CEO of Fort England Hospital, Dr Roger Walsh, after the Labour Appeal Court found he had been dismissed to allow the department to escape liability for illegal union behaviour at the facility.
“A court cannot permit anarchy to be rewarded and couch it as being justified in the name of the public interest. That is the route to the destruction of constitutional governance,” Judge Dennis Davis wrote in his Labour Appeal Court judgment.
During his tenure, the former superintendent-general of the Eastern Cape Department of Health, Dr Thobile Mbengashe, had removed the CEOs of the Livingstone, Dora Nginza and Elizabeth Donkin hospitals after they fell out with the unions. Mbengashe resigned from his position in late 2020, but was appointed as a consultant in the office of Premier Oscar Mabuyane. Disciplinary proceedings have been instituted against him for his role in the controversial procurement o
A damning report on the lack of progress made in improving the Eastern Cape’s mental health programme has revealed that apart from advertising for a director post and succeeding in preventing stockouts, very little progress has been made in improving the public sector’s mental health services in the past three years.
The report was also submitted to the Health Committee of the Eastern Cape Legislature.
In August 2018, after an investigation into conditions at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in Fort Beaufort, South Africa’s Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru William Makgoba advised that the national health minister should appoint an administrator for mental health services in the Eastern Cape Department of Health.
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