Page 17 - Jack Bloom News Today

Gauteng Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi faced questions from the DA’s shadow MEC for Health, Jack Bloom, around the recent News24 investigation - which has revealed how whistleblower Babita Deokara flagged R850 million in suspicious payments from Tembisa Hospital before her murder.

Calls are being made for more police protection as 10 armed robberies at doctors’ practices have been recorded in five months in Soweto.

The Democratic Alliance’s Jack Bloom quizzed the MEC on the matter in the Provincial Legislature on Tuesday.

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A News24 investigation has revealed how just weeks before she was killed, Deokaran raised the alarm on a string of suspicious payments from tembisa hospital as well as on her fears for her own safety.

Bongani Bingwa speaks to Jack Bloom, DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health.

In the Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital in Soweto, one operating room has been closed for three months causing critical procedures to be postponed.

The DA’s shadow MEC for Health, Jack Bloom together with Tembisa South Constituency head, Refiloe Nt’sekhe led a picket outside the hospital on Friday.

The DA led a picket outside Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhuleni on Friday morning, where the party protested against alleged corruption and the perceived lack of action by the Gauteng Department of Health.

Gauteng police are investigating the death of a patient who jumped from the sixth floor of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria.