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With the provincial health department having spent most of its goods and services budget just five months into the financial year, there are concerns the department might soon run out of funds for critical healthcare.

The DA in the Eastern Cape has written to health minister Joe Phaahla regarding what it labelled poor financial management, which has negatively affected patients in the province.

One of the largest providers of medical oxygen to the Eastern Cape has threatened to stop its supply to government hospitals and health facilities in the province next week because of unpaid bills.

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15 January 2021 - 08:07 KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo health departments have said there were problems securing sufficient oxygen supplies for Covid-19 patients at the provinces hospitals. Image: 123RF/Yuriy Klochan Parliaments portfolio committee on health has expressed concern at the insufficient oxygen supply for Covid-19 patients in hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo. The problem with oxygen supply emerged during a briefing to the committee by the KwaZulu-Natal and...

South Africa at risk of oxygen shortfall as suppliers surprised by Covid-19 wave Bloomberg11 January 2021 Subscribe Medical-grade oxygen usage is surging in South Africa amid a second wave of coronavirus infections, leaving suppliers struggling to keep pace with demand. As infection rates and deaths reach records, Air Liquide SA, Afrox Healthcare Ltd and Air Products are boosting deliveries to hospitals, with some now taking place daily rather than weekly. Air Liquide mainly supplies private...

Potential for severe storms. low pressure ejecting from the frox, warm golf moisture and severe weather outbreak including tornadoes, perhaps many across the complains to the only today but into tomorrow. risk hatched area for large very damaging tornadoes. wednesdays threat is even bigger. extending from the big bend of texas all the way up to the great lakes. we will keep an eye on it. this could be our biggest severe weather outbreak of the season. certainly maybe in the past couple of years....

Oxygen tank on fire much the explosion triggering fires in nine buildings, getting them. [chanting] freedom. >> some detainees at the center more author than a year claim the asylum process is too scho. immigration process responding. >> i think that will be accepted this sort of protest they have chosen the wrong government. >> nobody hurt. china. doctors claiming they have successfully removed a bullet from the brain of a man in a northern city. he was reportedly shot 23 years ago those doctor...