BY
HON MRS NJ NKWANYANA MPL
23 November 2017, KZN Legislature
Over the last few years there has been a sharp deterioration in healthcare at hospitals and clinics in KwaZulu-Natal, marked by shortages of medicines, collapsing infrastructure, broken equipment, and inadequate provision of staff. This has led to a situation in which the access to health care services and patients’ dignity is compromised on a daily basis. These shortcomings have been widely acknowledged and there have been periodic episodes in which healthcare in KwaZulu-Natal has been brought under intense public scrutiny.
The KZN Department of Health has failed to remedy the systemic issues. Instead, the focus has been on putting out fires and the crisis has been addressed on a piecemeal basis. As such, the situation in KZN facilities remained largely unchanged and in many instances, it has actually deteriorated to the detriment of patients. In light of our Constitution, that enshrines the progressive realisation of access to healthcare services and legislation set up to protect public finances, this is entirely impermissible and unacceptable.
Angeke izinto zingabi mapeketwane emnyangweni ngenxa yokuthi izisebenzi zenziwa izimvu zomhlatshelo ngenxa yokwehluleka kukaNgqongqoshe ukwenza umsebenzi wakhe njengoba kumiswe inhloko yomnyango. Njeqembu leNkatha sifuna uMhlonishwa uNgqongqoshe uDinangwe achazele lendlu ukuthi imiselweni inhloko yomnyango futhi imiswe isikhathi esingakanani? Ngabe izohola ihleli ekhaya okuzodla umnyango malini?
Futhi sekuphele iminyaka emibili lomnyango ungenaye umphathi wezimali u-CFO ngabe lesikhala sizogcwaliswa nini ngoba sikhinyabeza ukusebenza komnyango. Okunye ukuba khona kwabahlengikazi abangamabhoklolo ezibhedlela abahlukumeza iziguli enye into eyenza lomnyango ube ihlazo. Abaxoshwe abasebenzi bezempilo abahlukumeza iziguli. Asibadingi ophumasilwe noskhwili phambana nobhoko ezibhedlela.
Ngiyabonga.