Sabie Hospital turning bad situation around
By Michele du Plessis
Healthcare at Sabie Hospital has bootstrapped itself into respectability by the efforts of its staff, says its CEO Elvis Dibakwane. Rated the worst in Mpumalanga in 2015, according to the National Office of Health Standards Compliance (HSC), the hospital has undergone wholesale changes through a renovation programme costing R60 million.
This against the background of an ongoing struggle to provide decent healthcare to Mpumalanga’s uninsured.
At the official opening of Sabie Hospital in 2016, MEC for Health Gillion Mashego said that if the members of the community and hospital staff take care of the newly-renovated hospital, then the hospital would take care of them. At the hospital, it is not unusual to find the CEO, Elvis Dibakwane cleaning passages dressed in overalls.
At Sabie Hospital, 25 cleaners are responsible for an area of 400 square meters each, with various other cleaning duties as well.
“I lead by example,” says Dibakwane. “I cannot expect my staff to do work that I am not willing to do myself. We focus on cleanliness, safety and security of patients and staff, and staff attitude. Yes, we have problems that are of our own making.”
Dibakwane said staff shortages and attitudes had an impact. “We train people, from say an assistant nurse to a professional nurse. We do not have enough unskilled people employed by the hospital. Another problem that we have is staff loitering around, not doing their work.”
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