The following information is as received from the provinces.
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PROVINCES |
a) TOTAL AMOUNT OF ACCRUALS OUTSTANDING |
b) AGEING - PERIOD THE AMOUNT BEEN OUTSTANDING IN EACH CASE |
(C)TOTAL NUMBER OF SERVICE PROVIDERS NOT PAID WITHIN THE REQUIRED 30-DAY PERIOD 2023/2024 |
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R THOUSAND |
2022/23 FY |
2023/24FY (29 FEB 2024) |
2022/23 FY |
2023/24 FY |
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Eastern Cape |
R4, 764, 773 |
R5,132,000 |
Current: R1, 626, 945 More ... |
a) According to the NHLS,
(i) the FCLs do not have toxicologists specifically appointed in their establishments. Instead, FCLs have analytical chemists who also perform the toxicology analyses. They are known as Forensic Analysts and are able to do toxicology tests because they possess and use the same skills / equipment to do the work as a toxicologist would do.
(ii) Analysts employed at ...
The National Department of Health requested the Minister of Public Service and Administration to consider a request for strengthening the NHI Branch of the department on 16 May 2022.
On 2 June 2022, the Minister of Public Service and Administration approved the creation of 44 new technical positions for the NHI Programme in the Department.
The posts were advertised in the media (Sunday Times) ...
1. The table below reflects vacancy rates as provided by provinces with the Nurses being a consolidated rate across the 3 different categories of nurses (namely: Professional, Registered and Assistant).
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PROVINCIAL VACANCY RATES (%) |
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Category |
EC |
FS |
GP |
KZN |
LP |
MP |
NC |
NW |
WC |
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Medical Officers |
15.0 |
23.7 |
11.4 |
4.9 |
20.37 |
9.62 |
15.2 |
22.0 |
5.85 |
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Nurses |
9.0 |
26.5 |
11.2 |
11.2 |
2.96 |
8.0 |
17.4 |
39.0 ... |
(1) and (2) Please see table below
Responses were received from the Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and Western Cape Provinces only. Information from other provinces is yet to be received.
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Free State Department of Health |
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Name of facility |
Date of last service |
How often are they serviced |
Number of refrigerators not functional |
Dates for repairs or replacements |
Contingency plan |
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1. Bloemfontein ... |
As was debated in the Portfolio Committee of the National Assembly during 2023 and described in Clause 49 of the National Health Insurance Bill, the possible tax amendments will be introduced through a Money Bill by the Minister of Finance as and when appropriate and earmarked for use by the Fund, subject to the transitional arrangements as provided in Section 57 of the Bill. ...
From the Department’s PERSAL records, there are 21 posts on salary levels 13 to 16. Of these posts, the NHI Branch has managed to fill ten (10).
a) The respective salary levels for each of the filled posts are shown in the column named ‘Notch’ of the table below.
b) Additionally, the Job Titles are listed in column 2 of the table. Detailed job ...
(1) Surgeries are conducted at the hospital level and every hospital monitors and maintains records of the number of patients awaiting surgery at all public hospitals in the Republic. Surgical backlogs numbers are not static. As provinces do operations, the numbers under each category and in each province change.
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Province |
Types of surgery backlogs |
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a) at each specified hospital |
(b) in each province ... |
The responses to (a), (b) and (c) are provided in the Table below, according to the Provincial Departments of Health.
Table 1.
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Province |
(a) Full Details of last inspection |
(b) Outcomes |
(c) Personal Protective Equipment |
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Name of Unit |
Date of last inspection |
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Eastern Cape |
a. Mount Frere b. Mbizana c. Butterworth d. Adelaide e. Woodbrook f. Bhisho g. Mdantsane h. Queenstown ... |
According to the KZN Provincial Health:
1. The hospital electricity supply was disrupted by the breakdown of the eThekwini Metro Council managed substation which supplies the area. The disruption continued for 3 days starting from around 11H35 on Monday 04 March 2024 up to around 11h35 on Wednesday 06 March 2024.
2. The issue was resolved at 11h35 on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (a) ...