(a) What total amount did (i) his department and (ii) each entity reporting to him pay for printed copies of the integrated annual reports in the (aa) 2020-21, (bb) 2021-22 and (cc) 2022-23 financial years, (b) who were the suppliers in each case and (c) what total number of copies of the report were printed (i) in each case and (ii) in each specified financial year?
(i) National Department of Health
(aa) The National Department of Health annual report was not printed in the 2020/2021 financial year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronic copies were circulated to the stakeholders and uploaded on the departmental website.
(bb) For the 2021-2022 Annual Report –
(a) R279,900 was paid for printing
(b) Ribola Holdings
(c) 500 copies
(cc) The procurement process of printing ...
(1)Whether, with reference to the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organisation (WHO) framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the Meeting of the Parties (COP) to the Protocol that will be held in November 2023 in Panama, as well as the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control AFRO (AFRO) regional meeting taking place in Rwanda from 23 to 27 October 2023, (a) the delegation, including potential members from other government departments, public sector entities and participants not working in the public sector have been mandated to agree to any new stipulations under the COP Treaty; if not, why not; if so, what is the extent of this mandate;
(2) whether any part of the mandate to agree to any new stipulations falls outside of current legislation; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) whether public comment from the legislative process related to the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill has been incorporated into the delegation’s mandate as well as into the mandate of delegations for MOP and AFRO; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
(4) whether any measures, in terms of the delegations to COP, MOP and AFRO’s decision-making and mandate formation, have been put in place to ensure its work does not pre-empt the legislative process and nullify public participation process on the live bill; if not, why not, if so, what are the relevant details?
(1) The delegates would agree with mandates that are in-line with the country’s goals, existing and planned regulatory frameworks to control the use of Tobacco and related products.
(2) The current Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill has not been passed yet, if during the consultative process there individual or stakeholders that would propose amendments that can advance public health without compromising ...
What are the details of the steps of intervention that have been taken to ensure that patients with clinical referrals are not turned away at the H A Grove Hospital in Mpumalanga, as it is the case currently?
According to Mpumalanga Department of Health patients were never turned away. H A Grove Hospital is one of the two district hospitals servicing patients from Emakhazeni sub-district in Nkangala district, as direct patients or referrals from the local clinics both as emergencies and outpatients. The outpatient department has a booking system to avoid long queues and long waiting times. Patients are booked according to ...
In each of the past five years, (a) which provinces witnessed a rise in child malnutrition, (b) by what percentage has malnutrition risen in each province and (c) what interventions have been put in place for such provinces?
In each of the past five years,
(a) The Department of Health monitors the incidence of severe acute malnutrition which represents the number of children under five years of age who are diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) per 1,000 children in this age group. Increases in the incidence may represent a real increase in cases or better case detection as a result of ...
Whether his department conducted any studies and/or live monitoring to assess the current extent of electromagnetic pollution in urban and rural areas caused by (a) Internet Wi-Fi [5G], (b) Low Earth Orbit satellites, (c) mobile phone towers and (d) Internet fibre cables; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details of any (i) potential negative impacts on human, animal and environmental health and (ii) legislative and/or regulatory measures (aa) currently being considered and (bb) already in place to manage and mitigate the pollution to acceptable levels?
- (b) (c) (d) No, the Department of Health has not commissioned any studies and or live monitoring to assess the current extent of electromagnetic pollution in urban and rural areas.
- -(ii) The South African Products and Regulatory Authority (SAPHRA), which is an entity of the National Department of Health is responsible, from the viewpoint of human health, for regulating electronic products producing non-ionising electromagnetic ...
Whether, considering that public hospitals and mortuaries have been burdened with unclaimed corpses and noting that corpses are now decomposing at a faster rate due to loadshedding, his department has put any measures in place to ensure that such facilities are not burdened and overpopulated with unclaimed corpses; if not, why not; if so, what (a) measures and (b) steps has his department taken to trace the families of the deceased?
The public hospitals and forensic pathology mortuaries have continuous backup generator capacity. This helps mitigate the potential of mortal remains decomposing. There are continuous discussions with ESKOM to exempt public hospitals and Forensic pathology mortuaries from loadshedding. Most of the decomposed bodies are received by forensic pathology mortuaries mostly due to these bodies being discovered in public spaces after a longtime.
- Measures taken to ...
(1)What total number of state mortuaries in each province are currently over capacity;
- Table 1 below indicates the current status of overcapacity in state mortuaries, as provided by provinces.
Table 1:
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Province
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Total number of State Mortuaries with over capacity
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KwaZulu Natal
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None
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Limpopo
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3
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Mpumalanga
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None
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Northern Cape
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1
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Northwest
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None
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- Even though all facilities in provinces have a back-up generator capacity, there are however, there increased expenditure costs due to diesel and maintenance ...
Whether he will furnish Mr P A van Staden with the (a) total number of (i) state mortuaries and (ii) state crematoriums in each province and (b) names, (c) locations and (d) maximum capacity of each specified facility; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
(a) (i) Table 1 below indicate the response.
Table 1:
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Province
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Total Number of state mortuaries
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Eastern Cape
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22
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Free State
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11
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KwaZulu Natal
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25
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Gauteng
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11
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Limpopo
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12
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Mpumalanga
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20
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Northern Cape
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11
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Northwest
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7
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Western Cape
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17
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National
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136
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(ii) There are no crematoriums operated by the state, as state hospitals do not cremate corpses on site. From the information received ...
What are the (a) reasons that the Mafikeng Provincial Hospital does not have enough beds and space for new-borns who are currently being placed in boxes and (b) details of intervention steps he has taken (i) regarding this matter and (ii) to ensure that this never occurs in any hospital across the Republic?
- It is not true that Mahikeng Provincial Hospital does not have enough beds and space for the newborn babies. The hospital has enough bed space to accommodate the new babies who were placed in boxes. The babies were not placed in the cardboard boxes because of the shortage of beds and/or space.
- The details of intervention steps are:
- The hospital has started with the ...
With reference to his department’s campaign to compensate former miners with Tuberculosis and/or Silicosis outlined in January 2023, (a) what was the duration of the programme, (b) what is the total number of persons who were assisted in comparison to the past three years and (c) how does his department ensure that former miners are aware of the campaign and participate should they be eligible?
- According to the Compensation Commissioner the campaign to compensate former miners with Tuberculosis and/or Silicosis began in 2014 and is ongoing.. The programme has received renewed attention in the past 8 years.
- The total number of persons who were assisted in the past three years is indicated in the table below:
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Details
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1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021
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