{"id":70721,"date":"2022-08-22T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T20:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=70721"},"modified":"2022-08-22T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T20:22:04","slug":"hospitals-in-gqeberha-in-the-eastern-cape-on-the-brink-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/hospitals-in-gqeberha-in-the-eastern-cape-on-the-brink-of-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on the brink of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Muhammad Bham<\/strong>
\n22:08:2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three hospitals that constitute the Livingstone Tertiary Hospital in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape are
\npleading with the provincial Health Department to urgently implement crisis management as it is on the
\nbrink of collapse.<\/p>\n

The hospital serves over 2.5 million people in the Eastern Cape area and is the only hospital to cater for specific specialist procedures in the entire province.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s Shadow Minister of Health, Michelle Clarke, told Radio Islam listeners that this hospital is like
\nmany other hospitals in South Africa and other state hospitals. She believed that the state hospitals were on
\nlife support.<\/p>\n

Visiting several hospitals in the past few months, Clarke said that Livingstone is on the verge of collapse.
\nIn a recent trip to the hospital, Clarke noted that some clinicians revealed that things were better after some
\nmeasures had been implemented. However, a week later, doctors called them frantically, saying they could
\nnot perform urgent operations and procedures because of a linen shortage.<\/p>\n

Last week, many doctors walked out, saying they could no longer manage the pressure and strain.
\nClarke noted that state healthcare reached this stage because of bad management in the Executive.
\nClinicians are trying to manage the hospital as best as possible but not getting any assistance from the
\nexecutive management.<\/p>\n

Livingstone is not the only hospital where this was a core issue that needs to be addressed, but many other
\nhospitals have the same problem.<\/p>\n

Addressing the issue with the government, Clarke said that they had asked their chairperson at the
\ncommittee to do an urgent oversight visit at Livingstone, but this never happened.
\nClarke also reported the issue to the Health Ombudsman last week; the health ombudsman has
\nacknowledged the report for investigation.<\/p>\n

Clarke said that she has written to the ombudsman and the health minister, stating the intervention is now
\nurgent.<\/p>\n

Doing the oversight, Clarke noticed that the hospital had no paediatric out-patient clinic. There was no clean linen and blankets; the x-ray machine wasn\u2019t working; there were no ECG electrolytes; no first-line antibiotics.<\/p>\n

Other irregularities included the theatres for orthopaedic trauma cases not being up to standard, and
\nelectrical certificates for the provincial hospital have not been confirmed in terms of compliance.<\/p>\n

There was also an urgent need for a fully functional Linac machine for Radiotherapy.<\/p>\n

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