Gauteng gets new head of health as third wave numbers rocket

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The Gauteng health department has appointed Dr Sibongile Zungu as its acting head from Thursday in a bid to bring about stability as the province battles a rampant third wave of Covid-19.

“I have signed a concurrence with the premier, David Makhura. We are taking Dr Sibongile Zungu. She will come and act as head of department in Gauteng until they can do the recruitments and stabilise the system,” said acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi in a recent interview with SowetanLIVE's sister publication TimesLIVE.

Zungu was appointed as the acting head of health in the Eastern Cape after the resignation of Dr Thobile Mbengashe in September 2020, and she is the former head of department in KwaZulu-Natal. “There are conversations with the Solidarity Fund to assist, and currently in Gauteng they are looking at additional nurses to help us with the surge. We are hoping for about 480 and hoping that they can come quickly.

“I have asked the team to give me a report. I was speaking to [finance] minister Tito Mboweni saying it is an indictment on him and me, as people who believe in education and who have seen what education has done in our lives,” she said.

 

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