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THE national Department of Health intends taking over South Africa’s 10 biggest hospitals — including the world-renowned Groote Schuur in Cape Town — as some provincial governments lack capacity to manage them, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

The funding and administration of hospitals is a provincial responsibility, but in some provinces — including Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Limpopo — the public health system has virtually collapsed and hospitals struggle to provide basic levels of care.

Dr Motsoaledi said that 10 hospitals earmarked for administration by his department were "national assets" that had suffered under provincial governments.

Most of them were teaching hospitals, but the training of young doctors was "jeopardised" whenever a provincial health department faced collapse.

"If the province collapses — like the Eastern Cape is about to — these hospitals suffer," he said.

However, the hospitals earmarked for national administration include some of the best-run in the country, particularly Groote Schuur Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape.

Gauteng has four hospitals earmarked for national administration: Steve Biko, George Mukhari, Charlotte Maxeke and Chris Hani Baragwanath.

Universitas Hospital in the Free State, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal’s King Edward VIII Hospital and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital will also be run from Pretoria.

The decision to remove responsibility from provincial governments was taken at the African National Congress (ANC) conference in Mangaung earlier this month.

Democratic Alliance health spokeswoman Patricia Kopane said that Dr Motsoaledi should "leave alone things that are not broken".

She said she was shocked at the intention to include Groote Schuur Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital, as there was "no crisis in the Western Cape".

It was the only province that had obtained a clean audit for the past three years, which showed that it was capable of running an administration "very well", Ms Kopane said.

"I think the minister is just playing politics — he must focus on where the ANC governs because that’s where the problems are."

The Gauteng health department was plagued by power failures and neglect to pay suppliers, while a lack of service delivery in the Eastern Cape and a lack of doctors and equipment in Limpopo meant those provinces faced "serious problems" that required them to be placed under national administration, Kopane said.

Source: BDLive

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Dec 28, 2012

oldlady12

Hostile takeover?
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Dec 28, 2012

somaartakeit

why do they need to take over well run hospital? but then when it comes to anc they always break down what works, look what they did with teachers colleges and look now the end results of that.

So now we can take it in our stride that the next SAn asset to be brought to its knees are gov hospitals in the second term of Zuma's presidency, ja neh *shaking head*
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Dec 28, 2012

cobol

as long as you still have the influx of foreigners nothing will come right .
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Dec 28, 2012

Takkie

That's true somaartakeit, I once ask poeple to read a Book called Animal Farm, then you will see what is happening to SA.
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Dec 28, 2012

Mbeki_2

If ANC take over the good hospitals in W Cape so they can say ANC is running them well - guess what?? More votes will go to DA. Eish - they don't learn these boys.
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Dec 28, 2012

somaartakeit

@cobol
as long as you still have the influx of foreigners nothing will come right .
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So our gov's inability to manage the country effectively is now the fault of foreigners? Trust SAns to blame everything else but themselves for making a mess of things, I mean really guys we voted the corrupt and incompetent and good results in managing our national asserts when that doesn't materialise now its the foreigners fault? I don't know which is more sad your comment or jacob zuma presidency.
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Dec 28, 2012

Zimzalabam1

Can never make sense out of non-sense minister- This is just plain stupidity of the highest order.The Eastern Cape issue is understandable.
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Dec 28, 2012

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However, the hospitals earmarked for national administration include some of the best-run in the country, particularly Groote Schuur Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape.
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Why? do they want to f**k this up as well. ooo neee fok tog die anc goed maak my klaar.
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Dec 28, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

"The funding and administration of hospitals is a provincial responsibility, but in some provinces — including Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Limpopo — the public health system has virtually collapsed and hospitals struggle to provide basic levels of care."


And yet, the WCape hospital (The province with the best run medical care in South Africa), is also being earmarked for expropriation by the ANC...

Listen f***ers, govern your own provinces, as for the provinces you dont control, get your filthy sticking grubby fingers off!
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Dec 28, 2012

22112JO

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE AGE OF THE ANC RULERS ? THEY CAN RUN ANYTHING !! INTO THE GROUND. DON'T BLAME THE ANC BLAME THE VOTERS WHO PUT THEM THERE.
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