Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme Memorial Hospital operating in phases
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Dr Pixley KaIsaka ka Seme Memorial Hospital. Picture : Motshwari Mofokeng /African News Agency (ANA)
DURBAN - KWAZULU-NATAL Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane has revealed that the Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme Memorial Hospital in KwaMashu, north of Durban, is operating in phases.
She said it would be officially opened towards the end of the year when the premier and president were available for the official handover.
Explaining the operation of the hospital, Simelane said they were introducing this in phases.
“We took this decision because this is a new hospital with all new systems as well as new staff. It’s important when you open a hospital of this nature not to kick off with the entire hospital being operational. If we start operating in phases, we can easily identify challenges, and access if our systems are working properly as well as patient flow,” she said.
Simelane said the process of recruitment for the hospital was100% complete.
“Management has been appointed. Those who interviewed for all the other categories that are clinical and non-clinical, this process is also been 100% complete. Because some of the people will be working for the first time in government, they have to go through an induction, we will be doing during August as well as next month.”
Simelane said in the first phase of rolling out operations at the hospital, the radiology unit was opened to operate three weeks ago.
“Another reason we are opening the hospital in phases is that it was decided that it would be among our hospitals that are paperless in their operation. We will be using the system that we introduced and spoke about in our budget speech called the e-health system,” said Simelane.
She said that patients who were currently being seen at the hospital were those that were referred from other surrounding hospitals.
“Our patients at the moment are not walk-ins, we think that towards the beginning of October we will begin to have walk-ins. But the whole of August and September, we will be opening units in phases. In the next week the other units will be handed over to us, and we will begin using them and look at how the systems work.”
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