Investigation recommends action against CEO after finding expectant mothers sleeping on the floor, toilets overflowing and unheated wards
Inside the Neonatal Ward at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital during a sight visit by the Human Rights Commission. The healthcare centre has been on the spotlight lately after a doctor was suspended for writing an open letter about the state of decay the hospital is in. The suspension was lifted after an outcry from the public. File Picture: Thulani Mbele
In 2017, Professors Ashraf Coovadia and Hennie Lombard released a report into the state of the hospital, detailing the risks it posed to women and children, with a follow up report four years later that made similar findings and recommendations. The Rahima Moosa hospital is not the first Gauteng facility probed by the ombud, who has previously looked into the deaths of mental health patients in the Life Esimideni scandal and the death of a Covid-19 patient at Thembisa Hospital.
“Rahima Moosa deserves a CEO who is fit for purpose,” he said, describing how Mkabayi had failed to work full time at the hospital. There were “substantial irregularities” concerning her leave, with 27 work days unaccounted for in 2021 and another 71 in 2022, and she could not provide evidence of the virtual meetings she said she had attended from home, Makgoba said.
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