Electronic patient management system at Joburg hospital ‘abandoned’: DA

13 July 2015 - 12:39
By RDM News Wire

If you need medicine from South Rand Hospital‚ expect to wait up to 80 minutes. That’s half an hour faster than the average accident and emergency patient would wait to be seen to‚ while outpatients can expect can expect to sit for up to 130 minutes.Notices showing these “benchmark times”‚ said the Democratic Alliance’s Jack Bloom on Monday‚ are evidence of “one more failed promise by the MEC” for health in Gauteng.

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