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Free State Health says damning Universitas Hospital report is inconclusive─── 06:24 Thu, 10 Nov 2016
Bloemfontein - The Free State Health Department has finally responded to damning reports about the Universitas Academic Hospital released earlier this year by the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC).
Department spokesperson, Mondli Mvambi, says reports on the Bloemfontein hospital are not as bad as media reports make them out to be. He says the report is not conclusive as the OHSC did not involve the department in its findings. Mvambi added that the department is doing all it can to ensure that hospitals are compliant with its core standards, which include cleanliness and availability of medicine, among others.
This response comes after the Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, said the hospital – once the pride of South Africa’s public health system – is now the worst in the country in its category.
“The issue of the Office of Health Standards Compliance is an evolving mandate to the standards of cleanliness in the hospital, filling of posts, availability of medicine and all the non-negotiables of health standard services. Now, we always have to engage and sit down with them - they can’t come and do their own report without consulting us. So, in as far as I’m concerned, that matter cannot be conclusive.”
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