Helen Joseph Hospital without water, R550 million unspent budget
Patients and staff at Helen Joseph Hospital have been battling with terrible conditions after being without water for almost a week.
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Patients and staff at Helen Joseph Hospital have been battling with terrible conditions after being without water for almost a week.
The Gauteng health department allegedly failed to spend R2.7 billion of its 2022/23 financial budget, according to DA health spokesperson Jack Bloom, but the department has yet to comment.
The Gauteng health department has underspent R2.7bn of its budget in the 2022/2023 financial year.
The DA says clean linen shortages have been experienced by 23 out of 34 Gauteng public hospitals since January last year.
Some Gauteng hospitals have had to cancel surgical operations due to a lack of clean linen, health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko revealed on Thursday.