CHARLES MOLELE
ACTING Gauteng Health MEC Jacob Mamabolo is taking urgent steps to fill vacancies in the crisis-ridden department in a desperate bid to stabilize its leadership structures.
This comes few days after receiving a departmental update on the rate of vacancies in all health facilities in the past six months.
Between April and September this year, the provincial health department has had 78 vacancies across the administration, including some at various public hospitals across the province.
Of these, 24 are senior management positions such as the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Emergency Medical Services and six hospital CEOs, with the latest being the resignation of Professor Mkhululi Lukhele as Head of Department (HOD).
“It is unacceptable that we have such a high rate of positions where people are in an acting capacity, more so at senior management level,” said Mamabolo.
Mamabolo further stated that this
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