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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 Parliament's 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 the Limpopo departments of health on the status of health care services in relation to Covid-19. ...