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Violence still upsetting health care in KZN
Daily News
2000-04-13

A hospital in KZN battles to continue in the face of crime and violence.

Criminals in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands area of KwaMaphumulo were not deterred by the visit of a high-profile police and health delegation, including provincial health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. The delegation had gone to KwaMaphumulo to devise measures to rescue the troubled Umphumulo Hospital. A vehicle was hijacked outside the hospital gates as government officials drove into the premises to address the community about the problems in the crime-infested area. Many similar crimes have been reported in the vicinity, and some employees at the hospital have been victims. Three police officers have been killed in the area recently. The visit was prompted by repeated reports of rampant corruption and mismanagement at the hospital, where staff have allegedly stolen medicine and countless items of State equipment. As a result of the corruption, Mkhize deployed Carol Khanyile to clean up the midlands hospital and take over management and put a stop to the maladministration. But Khanyile was shot and killed under suspicious circumstances in Pietermaritzburg, where he had visited his family. He was buried at the weekend. Before the attack Khanyile had received an envelope, with a bullet inside and a note saying that he should expect it in his body the following day. The same death threat was sent to another no-nonsense staff member at the hospital. General fear prevails at the hospital and the nearby clinic and staff work in constant fear of their lives. But Mkhize on 11/4 reassured the community, saying that the joint effort by the midlands police management, led by area Commissioner Tyron Davis, would restore calm. We shall not be intimidated by the criminals. I am confident that the police will catch the perpetrators, he said. (Source: Daily News, 13/4/00)

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