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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 499
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 11 July 2014
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 4 of 2014
499. Mr M H Hoosen (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
(a) What is the (i) total number and (ii) number in each province of online
child registry systems available at healthcare institutions and (b) of
these systems, in each case, (i) how many are not fully operational, (ii)
what (aa) is the nature of the problems and (bb) steps are being taken to
correct these problems and (iii) how long will it take for them to be fully
operational? NW578E
REPLY:
(a)(i-(ii) The table below indicates the overall online health facilities
where child births are registered totalling 389.
|PROVINCE |Total number of online child |
| |registration systems available at |
| |health care institutions |
|Free State |32 |
|Gauteng |70 |
|Northern Cape |28 |
|North West |34 |
|Limpopo |46 |
|Kwazulu Natal |53 |
|Western Cape |40 |
|Mpumalanga |31 |
|Eastern Cape |55 |
|Grand Total |389 |
(b)(i-ii) The table below indicates the 159 systems which are not fully
operational as per province and the nature of the problems. It must be
noted that when a health facility service point is not fully functional due
to IT related issues, it does not mean that it is not operational at all.
Some facilities have IT network connectivity challenges with the hospital
serverâs downtime, which causes the birth registration process to be slow.
A birth can only be registered online when the connectivity is operational.
PROVINCE |How many online child registry systems are not fully operational
(b)(i) |Online child registration systems not functional due to IT related
challenges
(b)(ii)(aa) |How many facilities are not functional due to human resource
challenges
(b)(ii)(aa) |How many facilities are not functional due to space allocation
(b)(ii)(aa) | |Free State |19 |17 |2 |0 | |Gauteng |37 |31 |2 |4 |
|Northern Cape |4 |3 |0 |1 | |North West |8 |7 |0 |1 | |Limpopo |19 |17 |2
|0 | |Kwazulu Natal |16 |11 |0 |5 | |Western Cape |8 |5 |0 |3 | |Mpumalanga
|17 |15 |0 |2 | |Eastern Cape |31 |28 |2 |1 | |Grand Total |159 |134 |8 |17
| |
(b)(iii) For the current financial year the Department will focus on the
current 389 connected child registry systems at healthcare institutions.
Eighty nine (89) healthcare institutions have been identified for
optimisation. Part of the optimisation plan is to focus on facilities with
high birth rates where challenges were experienced, whether IT and non-IT
related. For IT compatibility a procurement process needs to be followed
to enable IT to procure all IT resource needs. This process can take up to
3 months.
The Departmentâs current memorandum of understanding with the Department of
Health needs to be revised to provide for alternative accommodation in
cases of renovations or space withdrawals.
The optimisation of health facilities will be a continuous process which
the Department of Home Affairs will be fully engaged in the years to come.