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Gauteng health MEC Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi visited the Rahima Moosa Hospital and said the matter is under investigation by the Quality Assurance Unit.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gauteng government has spent a staggering R1.238bn of much-needed Covid-19 funds on the construction of four new “field intensive care” hospitals. The money was spent in 2020. But of the four, two are still not open.

Thirty-two members of staff at Helen Joseph Hospital in Gauteng have been assaulted by psychiatric patients since the beginning of the year.

The DA in Gauteng intends to campaign for decent facilities with adequate staffing at Helen Joseph Hospital following the assault of 32 staff members by psychiatric patients.



In February, Stix Morewa Hospital in Selby, Johannesburg, sent out a letter to families, saying that mental health patients would have had to be transferred elsewhere.

Fears mounted over the potential for another Life Esidimeni tragedy after the families of more than 400 mental healthcare patients at Solomon Stix Morewa Hospital were told by the Gauteng Department of Health that it would terminate its contract with the hospital by the end of March. Fears moun...

Doctors were forced to bring lunch for patients at risk at the facility.

Rotting human tissue is piling up at Gauteng hospitals as services are suspended over non-payment. The collapse in management is bringing what was once a ‘comprehensive healthcare system’ to its knees.

Provincial hospitals are facing mounting debt and unpaid bills which has affected services in some of the province healthcare facilities after more than 42,000 suppliers were not paid within the legally required 30 days.

The Gauteng department of health owes businesses more than R3.1bn in unpaid invoices.