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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.

University of cape townWestern capeSouth africaPort elizabethEastern capeUniversity of fort hareThe premierUniversity of the western capeRolene wagnerThobile mbengasheOscar mabuyaneMasters in public health administrationNetcare primary care divisionEastern cape department of healthPublic healthDepartment of health