Question NW3733 to the Minister of Health
28 October 2022 - NW3733
Hlengwa, Ms MD to ask the Minister of Health
(1)What total number of state hospitals and/or clinics require (a) infrastructure upgrading and (b) maintenance of existing infrastructure; (2) whether he will furnish Ms M D Hlengwa with an audit of all unstaffed positions in state hospitals and/or clinics; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
1. The Health Sector as the user of health facilities required by GIAMA to produce User Asset Management Plan (U-AMP) which reflect the condition of the health facilities. This followed by development of Infrastructure Programme Implementation Plan (IPMP), which is a three-year costed plan, which indicates how these facilities will be attended, to bring them back to acceptable standard. The U-AMP table below is indicating that there are 265 hospitals and 1903 primary health care facilities that requires a certain number of upgrades and additions. However, it should be noted that all active health facilities are budgeted for maintenance and repair in every financial year through Equitable Share and Hospital Revitalization Grant.
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Number of Facilities that register conditional rating of C3 (C3: urgent attention) as per 2020 U-AMP |
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Province |
Hospital |
Primary Health Care |
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EC |
43 |
325 |
|
FS |
29 |
12 |
|
GP |
32 |
98 |
|
KZN |
66 |
486 |
|
LP |
2 |
385 |
|
MP |
30 |
237 |
|
NC |
14 |
71 |
|
NW |
21 |
218 |
|
WC |
28 |
71 |
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TOTAL |
265 |
1903 |
2. The current overall vacancy posts for all health care workers, which are providing both health related (16 070) and administration (4 764) functions/services in hospitals and clinics are 20834 posts, in the public health sector (i.e. in all 9 Provinces including the National Department of health) as recorded on the 30 September 2022 PERSAL System date set.
These recorded posts are both funded and unfunded posts in the System. Due to constrained budgets, a systematic process of approving funding and advertisements of posts by accounting officers in consultation with Provincial Treasuries is ongoing. This is to avoid exceeding Cost of Employment (COE) budgets.
END.