KZN health MEC slams DA accusations that she instructed hospital to postpone vaccinations KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu. Image: Sandile Ndlovu
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has come under fire from the DA in the province, which claims she gave an instruction to postpone the vaccination of about 40 health-care workers on Wednesday.
The DA claims the instruction was made on a WhatsApp group consisting of staff members from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital.
But the health department slammed the claims, saying the DA was trying to hijack, distort and misrepresent its vaccination roll-out plans in the province. This is a typical DA
KZN Health Department mismanaged PPE funds, AG report finds
By Chris Ndaliso
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Durban - THE Auditor-Generalâs second Special Report on the financial management of Covid-19 funds has painted a grim picture of how the provincial Department of Health has mismanaged the funds.
The report, tabled before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts recently, revealed that the departmentâs procurement processes were flawed.
It was found that departments, including KZN, did not always adhere to the instruction notes issued by the National Treasury as they continued to order PPE items at prices in excess of the maximum prices prescribed by Treasury.
Helicopter crash victims hailed as brave and selfless Updated
Lauren Beukes
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The CEO of the Netcare Group say the medical
professionals who died in a helicopter crash in KZN have answered the highest call.
They d been on their way to pick up a critically ill
patient in Hillcrest and transfer them to Johannesburg s Milpark Hospital when
the Netcare 911 plane they were in came down near Bergville.
They ve been named as Dr Kgopotso Rudolph Mononyane,
Dr Curnick Siyabonga Mahlangu,Mpho Xaba, Sinjin Joshua Farrance and pilot, Mark
Stoxreiter.
“These brave, selfless, frontline heroes, who were on
mercy mission to serve the life of a desperately ill-patient dying from covid-pneumonia,”
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The elderly woman who was pleading for help, in a widely shared video taken at Wentworth Hospital, has died.
Rowena Hawkey (69) is seen in the clip seemingly in extreme respiratory anguish, pleading for assistance. Patients are shown lying on the floor and hunched in chairs with no help being administered by medical staff.
Hawkey is shown shouting, I can t breathe! Please get me out of here. Hello, hello. Please get this [indistinguishable]. I m going to die like this. This tube here, please give it to me. I ve asked everybody to help me. No one wants to help me. nobody. I can t live like this, she cries.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane Zulu and her HOD, Dr Sandile Tshabalala, to conduct an urgent investigation into a video currently circulating on social media which shows several patients in deep distress, allegedly at Wentworth Hospital.