Office-bound doctors to be redeployed
This was announced by health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu among a number of interventions to improve service delivery
QUALIFIED office-bound doctors and nurses will be redeployed to public hospitals and clinics across the province’s 11 districts to boost capacity.
This was announced by health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu among a number of interventions to improve service delivery.
‘There are too many doctors at head office. We must give them space to also be clinicians.
‘We must consider how many hours district managers can spend at our hospitals,’ the MEC said.
Simelane-Zulu also said that contact details of all hospital CEOs, district directors, and those in charge of dispatching ambulances, will be made public.
‘We are going to place advertisements in newspapers and on our online platforms with names and contact details (state-issued cellphone numbers) of district managers, all facility managers, as well as those who manage our emergency medical services.
‘What this will do is ensure that when there’s a crisis, if I’m in Zululand for example, I know who the district manager is,’ she said.
The intention is to ensure that people have access to those in charge.
‘We have realised as a department that our people do not have an understanding of where to go when they face problems at our facilities. They are unaware of the complaints procedures.
‘It does not help that some of us think that lodging a complaint amounts to making a nuisance of ourselves, rather than exercising a right.
‘If we are serious about being public servants, then we must all be accessible to the public,’ she said.
Simelane-Zulu also vowed to continue lobbying for the unfreezing of more posts to relieve overburdened healthcare professionals. This, she said, could see the department filling up to 60% of posts.
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