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Woman of Courage: Eastern Cape's new health superinte...


From next month the Eastern Cape Department of Health will have a new boss, who will have to sort out several major problems. The department is bankrupt. Its tertiary hospitals are hollowed-out shells of what they used to be. The province is in the grips of a third wave of Covid-19 cases and the Bhisho bureaucrats are holding on for dear life as the department sinks under the weight of years of mismanagement.
And yet the first female superintendent-general of the department, Dr Rolene Wagner, is upbeat.
It took the Eastern Cape government close to a year to recruit someone for the job that was vacated by Dr Thobile Mbengashe, who resigned before his contract ended after a disastrous Covid-19 response, mounting legal claims against the department, a top-heavy bureaucracy with many leadership positions at hospitals left vacant and the scandal of the medical scooters that were almost bought with Covid-19 money. ....

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Walls of Eastern Cape TB hospital falling apart, patients, nurses fear being buried alive


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Staff and patients at a TB hospital in the Eastern Cape fear they are in danger that the hospital s walls and roofs will collapse on them.
The hospital s kitchen and pantry have leaking roofs and buckets have been placed strategically in the storage room to prevent food from being damaged by rain.
Workmanship at Ward G, the newly renovated Covid-19 ward, is so badly done that the project should never have been signed off.
The Orsmond TB Hospital in Kariega, formerly Uitenhage, has been allowed to degenerate into a state of disrepair with huge cracks lining the walls and massive gaps all over the facility, while staff fear the structure may soon cave in on them. ....

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