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Deputy Public Defender Kholeka Gcaleka took a walk at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
- Denosa welcomed the Public Protector’s report following an inspection of 17 public hospitals.
- The report emanates from an inspection at facilities in Gauteng, KZN, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and Limpopo.
- Denosa said he was not surprised by the findings.
The Democratic Nursing Organization of South Africa (Denosa) has said that the findings of the Office of the Public Protector in its visits to 17 health centers in five provinces were not surprising.
“[The findings] confirm both what we have been complaining about all the time about the problem of shortage of staff and poor quality of personal protective equipment [PPE] for health workers, among others, “the union said in a statement.
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This after a report compiled by the Public Protector’s office outlined the serious difficulties facing the healthcare sector, including that front-line workers battling Covid-19 in severely affected provinces in the healthcare sector Public health workers are some of the most exposed to PPE shortages, leaving some nurses to wear broken equipment.
The deputy defender of the Public Protector, Kholeka Gcaleka, shared the details of the report in a briefing on Monday. This after his office embarked on lightning inspections of various public health facilities across the country.
The inspection included hospitals in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and Limpopo, covering 17 public hospitals, News24 previously reported.
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Denosa said Public Protector’s findings also validated their calls for the need to employ nurses hired by the Covid-19 pandemic in full-time jobs.
“This will ensure that elective procedures are attended to on time as well, after Covid-19.
Furthermore, the findings vindicate Denosa in its constant calls on the government to pay nurses a risk compensation, which fell on deaf ears. Due to the government’s blatant refusal to pay the risk, the nurses have been sent into a death trap because many of them have died from contracting the virus in the workplace. “
Denosa said that since the beginning of March, it had voiced its voice and called for solutions regarding PPE shortages, staff shortages, medicine shortages due to poor planning, poor PPE quality, broken machines that took forever to repair. or replaced and the response time for laundry in cleaning is “unacceptably long.”
“Therefore, what the Public Defender’s Office found in those visits is not something that was not expected, nor is it something that the government is unaware of,” he added.
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