The Parliamentary Select Committee on Social Services has begun its three-day oversight visit in the Northern Cape on Tuesday.
The committee is in the province to assess the state of health care infrastructure and service delivery in the province.
The Select Committee on Social Development begins a three-day oversight visit to the Northern Cape at the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital in Kimberly. pic.twitter.com/dGMLsdWWMw
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Parliamentarians will hear first-hand the process made in implementing the recommendations of the Health Ombudsman following the damning report on the poor state of care at the Robert Mangaliso Hospital and the provincial Mental Hospital.
The report followed the death of two psychiatric patients admitted at the Mental Hospital.
Committee Chairperson Desery Fienies says, “This visit is part of Parliaments responsibility to ensure that every that every South African has quality reliable and dignified health care services. Our focus will be on the Provincial Department of Health and we will be assessing the condition of hospitals and clinics.”
Fienies adds, “We also look at project management especially delays in hospitals and clinics projects and examine how maintenance and water supply issues are being handled, importantly we will evaluate how conditional grants are being spend to ensure that every rand are located for health care.”
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