The family Gaunt is familiar from a memoir Gaunt published in 2020 called Hope, a Goat and a Hospital, an account of starting and growing a family in a deeply rural village in a former Bantustan while running and developing a hospital.
Doctor Ben Gaunt led a team that transformed Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape from a struggling public health facility into a poster child for excellence. In 2022, after a decade of service, Gaunt resigned. The drama, which followed the appointment of a controversial CEO, was well publici.
‘We feel like the CEO has taken us 10 years back in 10 months,’ said a doctor of the conflict that has seen Zithulele Hospital’s status as an outstanding district hospital come into peril after the strict application of the Eastern Cape Department of Health’s policy brought conflict and.
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