Staff get meat, patients bones

[daveza]

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/02/04/staff-get-meat-patients-bones

At a Gauteng government hospital, kitchen staff preparing patients' meals pulled chicken meat off the bone, served the bones to the patients and sold the meat.

From the back doors of hospitals to the desks of senior officials, health sector corruption has become so routine that it is now a feature on the population health agenda. It even attracts its own research funding.

Stealing hospital patients' meals is just one example of the corruption uncovered by Wits School of Public Health staff, revealed at a conference two weeks ago.

Explaining why research into health sector corruption was starting to get public funding and "conference time", the head of the school, Dr Laetitia Rispel, said "corruption can undermine population health" as much as poverty and unequal access to resources can.

With the assistance of her colleague, Dr Pieter de Jager, the school interviewed 16 health sector "insiders" and analysed newspaper articles and other reports, including the auditor-general's.

According to employees interviewed, fraud is "at uncontrollable levels" and is being "committed by people who know how to cover their tracks".

One report by the auditor-general showed that 40.5% of the 2010-2011 Northern Cape health department's budget was irregularly spent.

Accommodation shared by 28 nurses at Madweleni Hospital, in Eastern Cape. The squalor is indicative of the shocking state of the healthcare sector, in which corruption has reached 'uncontrollable levels', according to a study by the Wits School of Public Health

There are probably more nasty bacteria in that sink than in the patients.

Think it's time we officially downgraded ourselves to 4th world.

 

[ponder]

Get over it, that's how we roll in Africa

No reason why we should be any better than the other African states.

 

[gregmcc]

I'm speechless! Just when you thought you have heard everything!

 

[Zyzzyva]

kitchen staff preparing patients' meals pulled chicken meat off the bone, served the bones to the patients and sold the meat.

rofl

 

[STS]

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/02/04/staff-get-meat-patients-bones

Accommodation shared by 28 nurses at Madweleni Hospital, in Eastern Cape. The squalor is indicative of the shocking state of the healthcare sector, in which corruption has reached 'uncontrollable levels', according to a study by the Wits School of Public Health

There are probably more nasty bacteria in that sink than in the patients.

Think it's time we officially downgraded ourselves to 4th world.

Because of 1 hospital? I've used a government hospital before, wasn't great but didn't die, and it was free. I'm grateful somebody helped me

 

[Wag]

africa my friend. Dog eat dog

 

[be.plato]

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/02/04/staff-get-meat-patients-bones

Accommodation shared by 28 nurses at Madweleni Hospital, in Eastern Cape. The squalor is indicative of the shocking state of the healthcare sector, in which corruption has reached 'uncontrollable levels', according to a study by the Wits School of Public Health

There are probably more nasty bacteria in that sink than in the patients.

Think it's time we officially downgraded ourselves to 4th world.

Is that the operating room?

 

[daveza]

Is that the operating room?

Probably some kind of research lab.

Brewing bilharzia in the bucket, some Legionairre's under the sink, hell knows what on the ironing board....

Can nobody get some handy andy and a scrubbing brush ??

 

[MyWorld]

We must not compare these western tendencies of sanitation and proper management to Africa, it is foreign to our African culture.

 

[The_Ogre]

Is that the operating room?

Or the ICU

 

[daveza]

Can't wait to see the toilets.

 

[DreamKing]

Stealing hospital patients' meals is just one example of the corruption uncovered by Wits School of Public Health staff, revealed at a conference two weeks ago.

they must be racists.

 

[DreamKing]

Because of 1 hospital? I've used a government hospital before, wasn't great but didn't die, and it was free. I'm grateful somebody helped me

I know too many wits staffs and students, they are all racists.
it is absolutely nothing wrong for any of our public hospitals.

 

[gregmcc]

Bloody agents - its all racist propaganda! :erm:

 

[D3x]

Shoot them!

 

[Vrotappel]

Make me so proud, the great African agenda at work.

 

[STS]

logic of mybb, ****s themselves when whites are generalised.

go on to generalise.

i'm surprised this country is still running with the general perception of it this hospital isn't excused but this is africa? zim 2.0, guavamints, come on

 

[atomcrusher]

Or the ICU

Naah .. it's the recovery ward

 

[2026]

From the headline, I was thinking the staff were eating patients' bones...

 

[Creag]

I have a dream...

...but this is just blanking it out so horribly.

When will this country rid itself of its corruption and contentment with being a fourth world country. Health, education, transportation, communication, public works, etc. Just a long line of government departments with massive problems. Eish!