SUSPENDED Tembisa Hospital CEO Ashley Mthunzi has been warned not to set foot there again, or the hospital will be made ungovernable.
This threat was made yesterday, 31 August, by members of Operation Dudula picketing outside the hospital.
The CEO was suspended last week, following corruption allegation.
Tshidiso Mavundla of Operation Dudula told Daily Sun: “We are actually angry.That particular CEO must never come back to the hospital.
“If the authorities are not going to listen to us, we’re going to render the hospital ungovernable.”
The group said they were also protesting to bring awareness to an influx of foreign patients to South African hospitals.
Tembisa and Chris Hani Baragwanath hospitals, as well as Hillbrow Clinic, have recently seen picketing outside their premises.
This after an earlier protest at Kalafong Hospital in Tshwane.
“The reason we came here is that there has been a growing problem with illegal immigration,” said Mavundla. Our health facilities are overwhelmed and South Africans are unable to get services because they are taken by undocumented foreigners. “However, wWe have the right to picket and show the authorities that we are unhappy with the current situation.
But protesters did not stop patients from accessing the hospital. in Tembisa, as protesters did in Tshwane.
Mavundla claimed South Africans were told there was no medication or beds while beds were occupied by people who were in the country illegally.
“We are going to highlight the plight we are facing. We are going to send the message but not confront anyone. We don’t the right to do so,” he said.
“We are going to send the message, but not confront anyone,” said Mavundla.
said the issue of corruption at the hospital was not new.
“When Aaron Motsoaledi was still minister of health, he came to this hospital over the same issues, such as officials colluding with suppliers,” he said.
The Gauteng Health Department condemned protests at hospitals. The department managed to get a court interdict to stop protesters from blocking access to Kalafong Hospital.
