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Intervention must take place at an extremely high level immediately to eradicate the crisis currently prevailing in state hospitals. It was revealed today that there were more than 3,832 deaths in Gauteng hospitals in 2018 due to medical negligence.

Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku provided the figures in response to a written question from Jack Bloom, a DA member of the Gauteng legislature.

So-called serious misfortunes (SAEs) are described as incidents in which unintentional harm is done to a patient because of something done, or not done to a patient, rather than due to a patient’s illness or underlying medical condition.

Most of these incidents – a total of 1,763 – were reported at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. This hospital is the third largest in the world and serves as a referral hospital for patients nationwide. Nearly 150,000 patients are admitted there annually and 500,000 outpatients are treated.
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It’s the age of austerity and it’s bad news for doctors, nurses and patients alike — unless the state can do more with less.

Almost 200 posts for doctors and specialists remain unfilled at Gauteng’s four academic hospitals — and many of these posts are likely to remain empty, the health department says.

Gauteng hospitals can only fill half of its critical medical staff vacancies — positions that normally go to doctors, specialists and nurses, Gauteng health department deputy director general for clinical services Richard Lebethe says.

Hospitals were first informed about this via an April circular sent to hospitals.

The head of psychiatry at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Wendy Friedlander, says medical officers are feeling the strain of almost 80 vacant posts.

“Doctors [now] have a much greater doctor to patient ratio. If you have more patients, what you can give in terms of time, facilities and resources
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