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The Department of Health is the executive department of the national government that is assigned to oversee healthcare in South Africa, reporting to the Minister of Health. The Office for Health Standards and Compliance was established in 2014. [2]
It is one of the 40 Gauteng provincial hospitals, and is financed and managed by the Gauteng Provincial Department of Health. It is a teaching hospital for the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, along with the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital , Helen Joseph Hospital and the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital . [ 2 ]
At the time of her death Deokaran was the acting chief financial officer at the Gauteng Provincial Government Department of Health. [6] [7] It was reported in the media that her death was linked to a corrupt COVID-19 PPE procurement scandal to the value of R332 million (equivalent to US$20 million) [8] within the Gauteng Provincial Department ...
There are more than 400 public hospitals and more than 200 private hospitals. The provincial health departments manage the larger regional hospitals directly. Smaller hospitals and primary care clinics are managed at district level. The national Department of Health manages the 10 major teaching hospitals directly. [8]
The hospital is affiliated with the University of Witwatersrand's Medical School and responsible for the teaching of healthcare workers and providing tertiary health services the Johannesburg community. [2] It has two admission wards, nine medical wards, four surgical wards, two orthopedic wards, a psychiatric unit, ICU unit and a high-care ...
[10] [11] This mass transfer of patients was known in the Department as the "Gauteng Mental Health Marathon Project." [ 7 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Later investigation revealed many attempts to warn the Department of the consequences of transferring patients to NGOs incapable of providing the specialised care they required, including court actions by ...
Johannesburg's Emergency Management Services claimed that the firefighting equipment inside the hospital had no water [7] although the Gauteng health department claimed that the provincial Department of Infrastructure had audited the building in late 2020. [8]
Qedani Dorothy Mahlangu (born 12 May 1968) is a South African politician who served continuously in the Gauteng Executive Council from 2004 to 2017. She is best known for her tenure as Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 2014 to 2017, when she presided over the Life Esidimeni scandal.