KZN health halts maintenance work to pay for R200m flood repairs as it waits for 'national funding'

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The KwaZulu-Natal health department has been forced to put some planned maintenance on hold to channel money from its budget to repair infrastructure damaged by the recent floods.

She said the provincial health budget had been trimmed for the current financial year. “In 2019/2020, our budget was R45.2bn. In 2020/2021 it went up to R49.3bn, followed by R50.6bn in 2021/2022. But for financial year 2022/23 it is down to R49.6bn.”

Francois Rodgers, leader of the DA in the province, said recently: “Despite an assurance from national government that it would contribute R1bn from its contingency reserve in National Disaster Relief Fund to flood-ravaged KwaZulu-Natal, the province will not receive any money and will instead have to reprioritise its already tight budget to cover the amount.”

 

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