Central SA
15 Free State hospitals to digitise inspections─── ZENANDE MPAME 16:14 Wed, 13 Nov 2024
Health inspections in hospitals ensure quality of care, patient safety, and compliance with health and safety prescripts and health standards.
The Global Green App is a system to digitise public health inspections to improve health inspections by environmental health practitioners (EHP).
Public Service and Administration Minister Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi officially handed over the Global Green App at the Universitas Academic Hospital on Wednesday (13/11).
It’s a system he developed working with governmental departments to make it a more applicable system to other EHPs, said Global Green Mobile App innovator Tshepo Mokhadi. “The nature of health practitioners is to do inspections, and we used to use papers that were not environmentally friendly, so the app digitises all those inspections.”
The app adds the benefits of live reporting as well as the camera function where EHPs can take pictures of discrepancies and the recipient of the report can get a live report of the discrepancies in their facility, he said.
The Global Green Innovation Project was first implemented at the Bongani Hospital in the Free State and was recognised in the 2022 Public Sector Innovation Awards.
The Centre for Public Service Innovation, a government component under the Ministry for the Public Service and Administration, is facilitating the replication of these solutions in 15 hospitals in the Free State and 15 in Gauteng.
Free State hospitals will receive tablets to digitise health inspections in their hospitals. Photo: Facebook/Free State Provincial Government
The Free State hospitals will be receiving tablets they can use to digitise health inspections in their hospitals. “The tablets were evenly distributed between the districts in the Free State and the one metro,” said Mokhadi.
“The system was designed by an EHP to be handled by an EHP and not any other person who is not authorised, and as practitioners, we are truthful as we have signed an oath by the HSPCA.
Global Green App handed over to Universitas Hospital CEO Dr Balekile Mzangwa. Photo: Casey-Lee Anthony
“The app allows colleagues to have more data and it allows them to make more informed decisions, before the app was launched the gathering of information used to take days. So the system now allows us to be efficient and effective in doing environmental health procedures.”
