DA slams Rahima Moosa Hospital CEO for 'failing' pregnant women
Gauteng health MEC Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi visited the Rahima Moosa Hospital and said the matter is under investigation by the Quality Assurance Unit.
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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.