JONNY STEINBERG: Zuma gave bureaucratic incompetence a political voice
Late last year, while preparing to teach an undergraduate class, I reread a 2010 essay on public healthcare in SA by the sociologist Karl von Holdt. He was a long-serving board member of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, and over the preceding years had visited countless other hospitals. He knew from first-hand experience what he was writing about.
The portrait he painted was distressing. Skill and expertise, he wrote, were often regarded by healthcare managers as threatening. In one instance a hospital CEO and his entire team were removed because they were too attentive to the needs of the hospital’s clinicians. They were replaced by a new team with the explicit mandate to keep doctors under control. ..
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