Page 18 - Jack Bloom News Today

As the country experienced the worst load-shedding in recent months, Gauteng healthcare facilities faced near deaths as generators failed to kick in during power outages.

Gauteng police are investigating the death of a patient who jumped from the sixth floor of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria.

DA Gauteng Shadow Health MEC Jack Bloom says the telephone crisis at Charlotte Maxeke has often seen staff using their own airtime

The DA has raised concerns about the shortage of plaster of Paris at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg.

The Department of Health in Gauteng has challenged the Democratic Alliance to produce the supposed warning letter issued to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital doctor, Tim De Maayer.

The Gauteng health department says a whistleblower paediatrician at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital was never issued with a written warning. 



The DA in Gauteng has raised the spectre of a cover-up after News24 revealed that provincial health boss Lerato Madyo never acted on a plea - issued by Babita Deokaran three weeks before she was murdered - that R850 million in dubious payments out of the Tembisa Hospital be investigated.



The DA in Gauteng has called for the immediate suspension of provincial health department CFO Lerato Madyo following a News24 exposé which revealed that she had authorised 'dubious' payments to a politically connected businessman.

Of nearly 7,000 events, there have only been 28 disciplinary cases, says Gauteng DA shadow health MPL Jack Bloom.

Children needing surgery at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital will wait between six months and two years for surgery in some cases, says Gauteng health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi.