Shoddy hospitals face closure

[DigitalSoldier]

Hospitals and clinics that fail to put patient treatment first and don't meet set standards face closure as part of a major crackdown.

Yesterday, Deputy Health Minister Molefi Sefularo launched his department's plan to revamp public and private health facilities, which includes hospitals and clinics - a move seen as a big step towards the introduction of a National Health Insurance (NHI) system.

This, he said, would be done through a national set of standards currently being drawn up and to be implemented by an independent health watchdog body that is still to be established.

The National Health Act will be amended to create the watchdog body, which will report to Parliament either directly or through the health minister.

It would have wide-ranging powers, including the ability to shut down private or public facilities it deemed unfit.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20091125041434649C982921

Actually sounds like a good idea but will this new "watchdog" have the same effectiveness as ICASA ?

 

[Good Life]

This is not good. This means less and less medical centers. Rather put systems in place to up the standards and get additional staff to cover the load, and fire the incompetent ones.

 

[DigitalSoldier]

This is not good. This means less and less medical centers. Rather put systems in place to up the standards and get additional staff to cover the load, and fire the incompetent ones.

But standards are being put in place

The head of the trauma unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Professor Jacques Goosen, was thrilled at the prospect of national standards.

 

[davemc]

Bwaaahahahahahaha!

I though that Health Department was the watchdog.
Now, the watchdog is creating a watchdog.

Which leaves the Health Department free to do what exactly?
Bunch of layabouts doing everything in their power to never ever be responsible for anything.

 

[Mila]

What they gonna do? close the hospital had have people die?