Video: ZINTLE BOBELO Patients were left alone in wards as Frontier Hospital staff downed tools this morning over non-payment of salary increments. The department of health had issued a statement on Thursday informing the employees of a…
An order for the department of health to reinstate Dr Sirajul Islam who was ‘grossly and unfairly dismissed’ as a chief medical officer at Komani Hospital in 2012 has been handed down. According to the court order, the dispute dated back…
Piles of dirty hospital linen and clothing has been found dumped near an informal settlement in Komani by residents who suspect that it was used by patients who may have had Covid-19. The residents claim that after their gruesome find…
Komani Psychiatric Hospital patients were deprived of food on Tuesday, only being served one meal during the day due to the continuous “downing of tools” by staff who claimed the institution management was gambling with their lives. The…
Komani Hospital employees downed tools on Wednesday, demanding to be tested and not just screened for Covid-19, after three workers tested positive and had come into contact with some of their colleagues. Seven of the contacts tested…
Seventeen posts have been approved for Komani Hospital, with the new employees expected to start next month. The outcome follows the recent employees’ strike, when among other things, they complained about staff shortages at the hospital.…
‘Patients sleeping on the floor’ Komani Hospital has become overcrowded, with a shortage of beds forcing some of the patients to sleep on mattresses on the floor. This is one of many concerns of the hospital employees, who have downed…
Komani Hospital workers are back on strike, this time calling on premier Oscar Mabuyane’s intervention. Find out in today’s The Rep how the latest protest action, which has been going on since Monday, unravelled.
Damaged clothing and linen from the Komani Hospital were found covered with mould, lying on the ground at OTJ Laundry Services in Sandringham recently. The state of the facility raised questions on how the company had qualified to do the…
