Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gauteng government has spent a staggering R1.238bn of much-needed Covid-19 funds on the construction of four new “field intensive care” hospitals. The money was spent in 2020, but two are still not open. The other two are only partially open and are being repurposed for other aspects of healthcare. The Alternative Build Technology units were controversially commissioned in March 2020 to provide extra bed capacity for the first wave of the pandemic.
that the three senior health officials suspended in February are the head and deputy head of infrastructure and the clinical manager of Helen Joseph Hospital. Kekana declined to provide their names on the advice of the legal and labour relations units of the department.has established that the head of infrastructure is Dr Sifiso Goodhope Maseko and the clinical manager is Dr Medupe Modisane.
Four of these hospitals were the sites for controversial Alternative Building Technology field intensive care units, controversially commissioned in March 2020 to provide extra bed capacity for the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic., the acting head of the SIU in Gauteng, confirmed that it was the hospital “extensions” that are the subject of the SIU investigation.Reddy said that the latest investigation involved, which has cost the department more than R700-million.
as the fifth wave of Covid-19 approaches, two of these new ABT hospitals are yet to open, and two are in the process of being repurposed.Of the four ABT ICU hospitals, Kopanong is the one shrouded in the most controversy and has generated the largest amount of wasteful expenditure. No part is open and it is nowhere near completion.
was operationalised during the third wave of Covid 19. The facility is used to accommodate Covid-19 patients who are stepped down from Covid-19 designated wards in the main hospital. Some wards in the facility are used to step down non-Covid 19 patients from the medical wards. This decision was taken to decongest the medical wards and create space to accommodate newly admitted patients with a high acuity level.
“This was meant to be done by DID, who have largely been missing in action and obstructive to providing even the basic plans of the facility to start the planning process. It is now being handed over to DBSA [Development Bank of Southern Africa] as part of the Charlotte Maxeke [CMJAH] work package. Once they start working in Block 2 at CMJAH, the dental hospital will need to be closed. At this stage, no one really knows when that will happen.
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