CHARLES MOLELE
WHILE he takes over a department riddled with nepotism, corruption and financial mismanagement in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, acting Health MEC, Jacob Mamabolo, has hit the ground running, meeting with senior management and visiting various warehouses across Gauteng.
On Friday, together with the department’s quality assurance team, Mamabolo visited a warehouse in Centurion, outside Pretoria, to check on the systems and stocks levels of various items.
According to a departmental official who accompanied Mamabolo during the site visit, some of the stocks – including personal protective equipment (PPE), had been stored at the warehouse since mid-April and were still not distributed to where they are desperately needed.
Mamabolo also met with senior management staff to get an update on the department’s response to the pandemic, including the increasing hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients and bed capacity at various healthcare centres.
Mamabolo was appointed acting MEC of
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