A known mental healthcare user has relapsed and has been bro…
A known mental healthcare user has relapsed and has been brought to the emergency services unit at one of the academic hospitals in Tshwane. The receiving healthcare worker orders the security personnel to tie the psychotic mental health care user to the bench until the specialist Dr arrives. This patient is tied to the bench for 6 hours waiting to be attended by Psychiatrist. Which of the following is NOT a structural problem that leads the recurrence of the above scenario in the South African Public health care sector?
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There is only two academic public health care hospitals in Gauteng province that provide Radiation therapy to Cancer patients that need this service. Each of these hospitals have only two machines. Patients wait for some time to receive the needed Radiation therapy, and some receive this treatment when the disease has already advanced and difficult to control its progression. Which of the following is the best possible solution to this long-standing problem in the South African Health care system?
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Patients admitted in a medical ward in a hospital in the KZN province are acquiring infections while admitted in the hospital. Several of them deteriorate to critical stages and two patients in the same ward lose their lives from an infection acquired while admitted in the ward. This information leaks to the social media and further to media people. This adverse event is reported on various radio and TV stations by the media. An investigation is conducted within the hospital to determine the nature, cause and mode of the infection. Based on the outcome of the investigation, the ministerial advisory committee suggests to the Department of health leadership that, revision of the infection control policy in health facilities be prioritized on issues to be attended to.Which of the below best represents the suggestion by the ministerial advisory committee?
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