Public health activists and members of the medical fraternity have rallied around the head of the Eastern Cape Department of Health, Dr Rolene Wagner, after she was placed on leave until the end of September and then redeployed to the office of the premier without explanation.
The head of the Eastern Cape Department of Health, Dr Rolene Wagner, has been redeployed to the provincial premier’s office with effect from Monday, 2 October.
Insiders have suggested the decision to move Wagner could be seen as an attempt by Mabuyane to create the impression that he’s cleaning up his government ahead of the 2024 elections.While Wagner has had a series of successes since her appointment to head the department in August 2021, the provincial health sector has been stumbling from crisis to crisis, mostly due to the department’s dismal financial situation.
Desperate Livingstone Hospital doctors tell patients: Call President Ramaphosa – we can’t fix your broken bones The AG’s report also flagged the Eastern Cape Health Department for failing to reach its target of at least 26% of clinics passing the ideal clinic standard. Only 21% of clinics are conforming to this standard.
“These figures illustrate the magnitude of the task Dr Wagner and her team have had to address since her appointment in August 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic. “Destabilising Eastern Cape health leadership, which has achieved remarkable successes in a relatively short period of time, will endanger these and future achievements, as well as severely undermine staff morale, and will directly contribute to deteriorating levels of service delivery.“We therefore ask you to reinstate Dr Wagner in her post as HOD and provide her with the necessary support to continue implementation of the EC Department of Health’s turnaround strategy.
The statement continues: “Wagner and her team have been systematically juggling different priorities needed to ensure that service delivery continues, and still address underlying root causes such as the depletion of funds through medical litigation.
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