{"id":8663,"date":"2013-08-07T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2013-08-07T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:59:04","slug":"8663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8663","title":{"rendered":"Conditions at Baragwanath hospital bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8666\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8666\" alt=\"Really?\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bara.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Really?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela has expressed concern about the conditions she found at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto during a surprise visit to the facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is part of her office&#8217;s on-going national stakeholders dialogue. The visit also served as an inspection-in-loco for the systemic investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Public Protector is conducting an investigation following a complaint from a group of doctors at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The complaint primarily relates to irregularities and inefficiencies in the procurement of hospital medicines and equipment leading to interruptions in essential services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Madonsela says it appears government has no plan in place to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her office&#8217;s ongoing national stakeholder dialogue and public hearings seek to strengthen government&#8217;s ability to deliver on the MDG&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are going around the country talking to people about their experiences of maladministration. Mainly maladministration to the country&#8217;s goals on millennium development,\u201d says Madonsela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She adds: \u201cOur duty is to fight against maladministration and ensuring that access to quality health care is not undermined. I don&#8217;t seem to think that there is a plan or at least we haven\u2019t visited a single province where there is a plan on how to end poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela has expressed concern about the conditions she found at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto during a surprise visit to the facility. This is part of her office&#8217;s on-going national stakeholders dialogue. The visit also served as an inspection-in-loco for the systemic investigation. The Public Protector is conducting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conditions at Baragwanath hospital bad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4857,1372,757,222],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-chris-hani-baragwanath-academic-hospital","tag-public-protector","tag-soweto","tag-thuli-madonsela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bara.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}