Low staff attendance rates at hospitals put a lot of strain on the staff who remain, depressing their morale and the quality of patient care, says Jack Bloom, who monitors government healthcare as a member of the provincial legislature for the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng. File imageSix of the seven largest public hospitals in Gauteng do not meet the health department's “acceptable” staff attendance rate of 90%.
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has the lowest staff attendance, with only 72% recorded last year.
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This is the Johannesburg hospital where staff reliably pitch for work'Masuku is cautious about which category of staff has the lowest attendance, but according to unconfirmed data for the last two years it appears that nurses have the lowest attendance rate.' Terrible when your staff are more sick then the patients..😃😃. These nurses are similar to present day teachers...Actually just there for the money/union tells you to strike you strike...Care for pupils or patients basically non excistent. Wow... NHI around the corner 😥😥
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