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01 February 2021 - 12:50 The family of Shonisani Lethole - his sister Dakalo, mother Patricia and father Albert - said the findings of the report about his death are overwhelming . Image: Thulani Mbele Tembisa Hospital CEO Lekopane Mogaladi has five working days to make representations regarding his suspension by the Gauteng health department. This comes after a scathing report into the death of Shonisani Lethole, who died at the hospital in June last year. Lethole was admitted to the hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. He tweeted health minister Zweli Mkhize about his mistreatment at the hospital and claimed he had been starved. ....
Dr Lekopane Mogaladi has been served with a suspension letter from the Gauteng health department after the release of a report into the death of Shonisani Lethole. ....
Tembisa Hospital needs upgrading, record keeping poor – Parliamentary committee News24Wire The main entrance of the Tembisa Hospital in Tembisa near Kempton Park, 20 January 2020. Picture: Neil McCartney The committee payed the hospital a visit on Sunday, after a damning report by the Health Ombudsman into the death of Shonisani Lethole Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health has called for the upgrading of the Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Gauteng. The committee made an oversight visit to the hospital on Saturday after a report released by Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba on the care and death of Shonisani Lethole. Lethole died at the hospital in June 2020. ....
THE Gauteng Department of Health has served Dr Lekopane Mogaladi, the CEO and accounting officer of Tembisa Hospital, with a notice to place him on precautionary suspension. ....
Tembisa Hospital doctors and nurses are scapegoats â nursing union Share Johannesburg â The Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union says it rejects the findings of Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, saying the report aims to absolve the Gauteng Health Department and to scapegoat nurses, doctors, clinical associates and food handlers instead. Makgobaâs report found that there had been gross medical negligence at Tembisa Hospital, leading to the avoidable death of 34-year-old Shonisani Lethole, who went a cumulative 100 hours without being fed at the hospital. The ombud recommended disciplinary action be taken against the hospitalâs chief executive, Dr Lekopane Mogaladi, who has been served with a notice of suspension and has been given five days to furnish reasons why he should not be suspended. ....