IN A move to improve the quality of management in the country's hospitals, the Department of Health will this weekend advertise 92 posts of chief executive officers to ensure that these key positions are filled with appropriate skills.
Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi said no one will be fired, but that this was merely a way to ensure that CEOs were at the appropriate level of deputy director-generals and that they had health background.
"We have done an analysis to look at the suitability of our hospitals' CEOs, and we realised that CEOs with no health background were struggling," he said.
He said the current situation was that these positions were either occupied by people who do not have health background or are at lower levels. "We have people at level 8 (clerk) who are hospital CEOs," he said.
Motsoaledi said in all of the country's central hospitals, there were no CEOs who were at deputy director-general level and that in many hospitals these positions were occupied by acting CEOs.
The minister said the appointment of chief executive officers was the responsibility of provincial health MECs