Sebokeng hospital needs leadership stability: DA

SEBOKENG.- Sebokeng Hospital is among 32 Gauteng hospitals that don’t have acting Chief Executive Officers (CEO), and four out of five districts have acting Chief Directors.
This was revealed in a written reply to the Democratic Alliance by Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku in the Gauteng Legislature recently. DA Gauteng Shadow Health MEC, Jack Bloom, says that the Gauteng Health Department is awash with 136 acting positions, including those of 12 hospital CEO’s. The following hospitals do not have permanent CEOs: Sebokeng, Mamelodi, Weskoppies, Pholosong, Far East Rand, Tambo Memorial, Jubilee, Edenvale, Heidelburg, Bronkhorspruit, Cullinan Care & Rehabilitation Centre and Bertha Gxowa.
According to Bloom there are 34 senior management posts which are vacant, and 136 vacant positions in total in the entire administration, including head office, all hospitals and clinics. “These cost the Department R6 281 871.52 between April and July 2019. I am appalled that more than a third of Gauteng state hospitals do not have a permanent CEO’s, some for as long as two years.
“The huge number of acting personnel in key positions is a major reason for poor performance. High calibre people need to be recruited as soon as possible to fill these positions.”