Rahima Moosa Hospital

Complaints have been laid against Dr Nozuko Mkabayi for being absent from the facility for most of her tenure, amid an investigation launched after reports ...

We cannot allow this to continue 😠😠😠we must restore the HEART of service' Ashley Sauls I - AS1 (@AshleySauls_1st) They rock up at the hospital some come straight from Park Station". Complaints have been laid against Dr Nozuko Mkabayi for being absent from the facility for most of her tenure, amid an investigation launched after reports were received of pregnant women sleeping on the floor.

The health ombud said it was shocking that the hospital did not even have an intensive care unit.

Makgoba recommended an adult intensive care unit (ICU) to be established and that there should be a disciplinary inquiry against the former CEO. There is no hospital board and there are security challenges, with cars being stolen at the hospital parking. Staff members have also complained of being mugged and there is a shortage of nursing staff."

Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba interviewed 34 people on the state of the hospital. Makgoba said Gauteng needs to rise its criteria for appointing ...

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Pregnant patients at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital were left to sleep on the floor in filthy conditions with broken toilets, while hospital CEO ...

He said his powers were limited to recommending that she face a disciplinary hearing, and that she be assessed again in three years when her contract ends. He said Mkabayi claimed to have a condition which she had disclosed to investigators and for which she required treatment and was committed to receiving. Makgoba said recommendations flowing from the investigation were that Mkabayi be removed immediately and transferred to Gauteng health head office while a condition she claimed to have had was “stabilised”, and that she face a disciplinary hearing with regard to her many work absences.

The health ombudsman, Malegapuru Makgoba released findings on complaints with regards Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Appointing her to this position was not in the best interest of the facility — or of Mkabayi herself, it reads. [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTg1uNbPplo) surfaced showing pregnant women sleeping on the floor of the hospital. This has resulted in sewage flowing freely on the hospital campus and “filthy” treatment conditions, among other issues. A new, permanent CEO must be appointed within three months, the report recommends. The body, which looks into complaints about the standard of healthcare in South Africa, had been investigating allegations of mismanagement and undignified care there for nearly a year. They had to be taken back to theatre for “relook” operations — there was no such cases in the prior months. [here](https://bhekisisa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OHO_Investigation-Report-into-allegations-against-RMMC-2.pdf). Read his PowerPoint presentation [here](https://bhekisisa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OHO-presentation_RMMCH-13-March-2023v2-1.pdf). But the senior clinical manager at the hospital also didn’t condemn her actions when he found out about it. - Within one month, the Gauteng health department and Rahima Moosa hospital should institute disciplinary inquiries against the nurse who used a “self-made” solution for surgeries and and the former CEO, Nozuko Mkabayi for her failure to ensure that the hospital was functional and to manage her leave in accordance with hospital regulations. Then in May, the head of the children’s ward, Tim De Maayer, [penned an open letter](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-22-a-wake-up-call-for-health-department-heads-children-are-dying-because-of-horrendous-state-of-our-public-hospitals/) to the Gauteng health department about the dire conditions at the facility. [report ](https://bhekisisa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OHO_Investigation-Report-into-allegations-against-RMMC-2.pdf)released by the Office of the Health Ombud, Malegapuru Makgoba, on Tuesday.

JOHANNESBURG - Unsafe, filthy, and dirty -- these are the words that kept coming up when Health Ombud Professor Malegapuru Makgoba interviewed 34 people on ...

There were words that become common that we heard as we were interviewing these people. "All that is in the report, and clearly the allegation that the dignity of the patient was not being respected, becomes really obvious." "During our investigation just around 34 people across the hospital.

Rahima Moosa Mother & Child Hospital has been neglected over the years, said Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, the health ombud. The Office of the Health Ombud ...

Phaahla said the issues at the hospital are not unique but are a microcosm of issues faced by the public health system. He added that the hospital should adhere to strict criteria for CEO appointments and ensure that competent people are employed throughout the hospital. “The CEO was not at work for 27 days in 2021, and 72 days in 2022,” he said. While there is an allocated budget, personnel, and a clear need, there seems to be no ongoing maintenance of the hospital infrastructure. The team obtained video footage that corroborated their findings, and whistle-blower Dr Tim De Maayer contributed significantly to the report, said Makgoba. Makgoba was speaking at a media briefing following the release of an investigation report into allegations against the hospital.

Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg has plummeted from an award-winning hospital to one that shows callous and chilling disregard for ...

The DA welcomes the Health Ombud, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba's report on the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMCH). The DA brought the inhumane ...

We will submit questions to the Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, the Health Department and Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko regarding the progress of this. The inhumane conditions of RMMCH would be magnified ten-fold should the ANC manage to bull-dose the unconstitutional National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill through Parliament. The DA welcomes the Health Ombud, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba’s report on the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMCH).

A year-long investigation into operations at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMC) has confirmed mothers slept on floors, the CEO was largely.

“What we found is that staff at the hospital would place orders for medical supplies and medicines. Mkabayi had a total shortfall of 98 days that could not be accounted for over the years 2021 and 2022, leaving the hospital staff with no leadership. They ignored choosing somebody who is of quality and has experience to lead the hospital”, says Makgoba. “While this is about a specific hospital, we are aware that a number of other facilities in the system suffer similar deficiencies and challenges. ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556866/)The patterns I have seen in my experience investigating the Life Esidimeni tragedy in 2016, the Tembisa Hospital COVID-19 death in 2021, and the current complaint of the Rahima Moosa hospital, are all similar. Releasing a report on the conditions at RMMC on Tuesday, Health Ombudsman Malegapuru Makgoba says interviewees most often described the facility, once considered iconic, as ‘dirty, filthy and unsafe’.

Investigation recommends action against CEO after finding expectant mothers sleeping on the floor, toilets overflowing and unheated wards.

The 80-year-old hospital’s infrastructure is crumbling and it lacks the resources required of a modern maternity hospital, including on-site laboratory services available 24 hours a day, a blood bank and an adult intensive care unit, he said. “Rahima Moosa [hospital] deserves a CEO who is fit for purpose,” he said, describing how Mkabayi had failed to work full-time at the hospital. “The most striking thing is that this hospital has been neglected for years,” Magkoba added.

Sister Thembela Goduka mixed Steriscrub and water to prepare patients for surgery, after the hospital ran out of povidone-iodine and SteriPrep solutions, ...

The report by Makgoba detailed how when the hospital ran out of povidone-iodine and SteriPrep solutions, Goduka took it upon herself to mix Steriscrub and water to prepare patients for surgery. Sister Thembela Goduka mixed Steriscrub and water to prepare patients for surgery, after the hospital ran out of povidone-iodine and SteriPrep solutions, resulting in around 11 infections. An investigation by health ombudsman Malegapuru Makgoba into the hospital found that sister Thembela Goduka, who was an operational manager for the theatre department, made the mixture when the hospital ran out of stock.

A bleak report by the health ombudsman was released on Tuesday, where the hospital was described as dirty, filthy and unsafe by many of its users.

They arrived at around 7am for a check up and they are leaving the facility helped. [Ombudsman](https://ewn.co.za/2022/06/24/health-ombuds-asked-to-investigate-rahima-moosa-hospital-s-ceo) Malegapuru Makgoba also described the Gauteng health facility as a mess but many of the women said that apart from the uncleanliness, their experiences had not been all that bad. [#RahimaMoosaHospital]Some of the pregnant women who we spoke to say they are happy with the service they received today.

The health ombud found that several attempts were made to alert the Gauteng health department about nursing shortages at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital.

In the case of RMMCH, this risk would include neonates, who are at greater risk." "Accordingly, the investigation found that there was no investigation report into allegations against Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMCH) written Divert Policy/SOP at the time of the incident. Dr Nomathemba Emily Mokgethi, a member of the Gauteng legislature and a former health MEC, said the issue of foreign nationals was the leading cause of overcrowding at Gauteng hospitals. Frew Gerald Benson, a doctor at RMMCH, estimated that more than 40% of patients admitted at the hospital were foreign nationals. Over the years, several attempts had been made to alert the Gauteng health department about a "serious" nursing shortage in the maternity ward of the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMCH) in Johannesburg, the health ombud has found. - The health ombud found that several attempts were made to alert the Gauteng health department about nursing shortages at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital.