Tag: 1 Military Hospital
Motshekga gives completion date for long-running 1 Mil refurbishment
The long-running saga of refurbishing and modernising 1 Military Hospital will, according to Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga, be complete by January...
JSCD wants DoD “weaned off” Public Works and Infrastructure
Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD), mindful of apparent shortcomings in Minister Patricia de Lille’s Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI), wants...
DoD leaves disastrous 1 Mil upgrade to the Hawks
No disciplinary action has to date been taken against anyone apparently involved in the disaster that is the 1 Military Hospital repair and maintenance...
“Consequences” sought for 1 Mil RAMP non-performance
Using politically correct language, Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) urges the senior command cabal of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) and...
1 Military Hospital now “a white elephant”
A forensic report into an apparently flawed and – to date - failed repair and maintenance project (RAMP) at the SA Military Health Service...
1 Mil off AU and UN high medical care provision lists
The torturous and seemingly never-ending upgrade of the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) flagship 1 Military Hospital could be “swiftly expedited” according to SA...
Lack of progress on 1 Mil repair is ‘unacceptable’
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans (DoDMV), now under the stewardship of minister Thandi Modise and previously presided over by Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, “completely...
1 Military Hospital a “disaster”
Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) maintains the “unending” repair and maintenance programme (RAMP) at 1 Military Hospital is a cause for “extreme...
1 Military Hospital ICU nurses cheer up COVID-19 patients with dance...
ICU nurses from 1 Military Hospital’s COVID-19 ward, donning scrubs and PPE equipment, did the “#ItAin’tMeDanceChallenge” to cheer up their patients. Set to the...
Defence committees not finished with 1 Military Hospital
The SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) flagship – 1 Military Hospital in Thaba Tshwane – is in a sorry state notwithstanding a stop-start repair...
1 Mil refurbishment shows what can be done – Marais
Renovations and refurbishment to part of the national defence force’s flagship military medical unit – 1 Military Hospital – prove “if the will is...
1 Mil intensive care ward up and running
Going against the grain of much long-running and still unfinished work at the national defence force’s flagship medical facility is the upgrade of the...
Hydrogen fuel cell systems power COVID-19 field hospital
Government, in collaboration with the private sector, is putting plans in place to roll out hydrogen fuel cell technologies in various parts of South...
Hydrogen fuel cell systems to be launched at 1 Military Hospital
The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) will today unveil seven hydrogen fuel cell systems that are being used as the primary power source...
Just on a billion Rand needed to make 1 Mil fully...
What was once the flagship of military health service in South Africa and respected as such internationally now needs a close to...
Parliamentary Defence Committee fact-finding visit to SANDF facilities and bases
A senior SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Special Forces officer told members of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans that...
Defence spend at largest bases
Estimates of National Expenditure (ENE) set out in the 2015/16 budget by finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene show what the spend at close...
Efforts to right military health service on the way
Sweeping changes, including appointing doctors and payment of outstanding overtime, will be implemented at the earliest opportunity in an all-out effort to...
