A meeting was held on 9 November 2022 with Mountain City Community Leaders whereby the issue of the clinic was addressed at length. During the meeting, it was communicated to the Community Leaders that there are two clinics at close proximity to Mountain City, namely Thulamntwana clinic which is 2.8 km and Weilers Farm Clinic which is 3.4 km from Mountain City. The two ...
1. The Department has, in terms of governance, developed and gazetted the “National Environmental Health Norms and Standards for Premises and Acceptable Monitoring Standards for Environmental Health Practitioners” in 2015. In terms of these Norms and Standards, the Department has since 2016 included the “Assessment of Municipalities” in its Annual Performance Plan (APP) to monitor the 1:10 000 ratio of EHP per population in ...
The Minister’s delegation included one technical official and one Personal Assistant.
1. (a)-(d) Yes.
(i) Total cost: R1 101 726.83
(ii) Daily allowance: R 57 390.94
Air Travel: R 211 876.63
Accommodation: R 827 461.51
Travel agent service fee: R 1 083.00
Service fees for accommodation: R 258.75
International handling fee: R 828.00
Back-office processing fees: R 828.00
Meals: R 2 000.00
2. As indicated ...
The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has made plans to visit the Lenasia South District Hospital, with the MEC for Health, to assess the state of affairs at the Hospital. This visit will take place on Wednesday, 13 March 2024 and the Minister will then provide the Honourable Member with a full report on the state of health services in that Hospital. ...
1. The employment of Foreign Health Professionals is subject to the conditions contained in South African employment legislation (including, for the public sector, those conditions contained in the Public Service Act, 1994, as amended and the Public Service Regulations, 2001), as well as the provisions of the Immigration Act, 2002 as amended in 2004 (Immigration Act) and the Refugees Act, 1998 (Refugees Act) where ...
According to the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS):
a) (i) There is no backlog of toxicology cases at the Durban FCL.
The Durban FCL does not offer a full toxicology service. Postmortem cases referred from the Kwazulu-Natal and regions of the Eastern Cape provinces that require analysis for carbon monoxide testing only are processed and completed at the Durban FCL. These comprise a small ...
1. Health sector relies on employment of doctors, nurses and other critical posts hence most of the budget is allocated to compensation of employees. Currently in 2023/2024 about 63% of total budget has been allocated to compensation of employees and 64% in 2024/2025 financial year.
2. As reflected during the media briefing hosted on 05/02/2024, we do acknowledge fiscus challenges the country is facing ...
The following table reflects the details in this regard:
NAME OF THE PROVINCE |
1 (a) Total number of medico-legal claims filed |
1 (b) Total number of the claims paid out |
1 (b) (i) Total number of claims paid out as settlements |
1 (b) (ii) Total number of claims paid out as court ordered payments |
2 (a) (i) Total number of ... |
Responses as received from the provincial departments of health.
a) (i) Gauteng Department of Health underspent the total allocated budget with R2.7 billion of which R937 million was for provincial equitable share and R1,7 billion for conditional grants,
The reasons for underspending are -
a) The position of the department is to implement the recommendations of the Public service Commission (PSC).
b) The department has implemented some of the recommendations which have no financial implications, the implicated employees are still in the employ of the department and the findings have not been challenged by the implicated employees and/or the PSC reports have not been taken on judicial review. ...