(a) The Provincial Departments of Health have advertised available funded posts for the various health professional categories including medical doctors and nurses. These are at different stages of recruitment.
(b) National Department of Health will provide guidance to provinces in line with the announcement that will be made by the Minister of Finance in his budget speech on 21 February 2024.
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The National Department of Health (NDoH) was aware of the shortages of biocides, hand sanitizer and hibiscus (hibiscrub) hand soap in the facilities across the Eastern Cape.
a) There are interventions that the NDoH implements to ensure that there are no supply shortages at facilities. These interventions are informed by the cause of the supply challenge.
According to the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH):
The clinic supervisor that was overseeing seven (7) clinics in the local area of the Mhlonlo Sub-district of OR Tambo District in the Eastern Cape (EC), retired in 2021, and the appointed operational manager for Malepelepe Clinic who was the most senior professional nurse in the area, was delegated to oversee the seven (7) clinics ...
1. It is not a policy requirement to allocate ambulances to hospitals. Ambulances are allocated to EMS stations which are either stand-alone or co-located in hospitals, clinics, and other public facilities. The allocation is organized according to what is practically achievable within the budget allocation. The focus is on ensuring that these ambulances are accessible and respond on time when they are needed. Nationally, ...
According to the SAHPRA:
a) SAHPRA has the mandate of regulating the efficacy safety and quality of medicines and thus the information supplied in a license application does not include information about the financial implications of not having a license ;
b) There are various reasons licenses are not granted but in essence applicants must comply with the criteria for Good Manufacturing Practice ...
The Table below is providing a list of reports that were conducted since 1 January 2016:
|
DESCRIPTION OF THE REPORT |
DATE OF THE REPORT |
CONDUCTED BY WHO |
LINK OF THE REPORT |
STATUS OF THE REPORT |
|
Occupation Health and Safety (OHS) Report |
17 September 2017 |
Bigen Africa on behalf of GDID (Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development) |
Contractor was appointed ... |
1. (a)(i),(ii) No Department within the Health Sector have blacklisted any company.
(b) Not applicable.
2. Not applicable.
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According to the records as presented to Parliament responding to a similar parliamentary question number 3511, the table below provides (a) data of graduates from each medical school in the country for the 2018-2023 period.
|
South African Institutions of Higher Learning |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
TOTAL |
|
University of Free State |
114 |
130 |
179 |
176 |
167 |
173 |
939 |
|
University of KwaZulu Natal |
159 ... |
1. (a)(b) According to the PERSAL report as extracted on 31 October 2023, the table below is the data of health care workers in both health related and non-health related categories who are expected to retire due to attaining 65 years, which is the compulsory retirement Age in accordance with the Public Service Act 1994, as amended.
2. (a) Since the Department is unable ...
a) The correspondence from NEHAWU refers to a forensic investigation that was instituted by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) to investigate the allegations levelled against the President of the HPCSA, Prof. M.S. Nemutandani.
It is important to appreciate the following: