Mess-ups mean Gauteng has no money left to fight third wave

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Icy words from acting health minister as province turns to banks, NGOs, volunteers to rescue it from Covid disaster

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto this month.Frantic efforts to stem the Covid-19 third wave tsunami in Gauteng are being thwarted by a cash crunch, with government calling on the private sector to help its strained healthcare system.

The money snag follows several Covid-19 related scandals in Gauteng last year, including irregular payments of millions of rand for dodgy PPE contracts and school sanitation. These contracts are under investigation by the Special Investigating Unit, which hopes to get some of the millions back.Government is engaging NGOs such as Right to Care and Gift of the Givers to come on board to assist “troubled” Gauteng.

FNB and RMB provided 12 buses to transport patients and healthcare professionals to various hospitals in Gauteng during April and May. There are conversations with the Solidarity Fund to assist, and in Gauteng they are looking at additional nurses to help us with the surge.“Unfortunately we do not have a budget, so we can’t. We were hoping that some of the colleagues would volunteer. We are looking at various areas – there are conversations with the Solidarity Fund to assist, and in Gauteng they are looking at additional nurses to help us with the surge.

Last week she had approached public service and administration minister Senzo Mchunu to try to help bring in capacity in the administration of the department.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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Why is Makhura still a premier if that is the case?

Which part of gauteng are they selling to these banks and NGOs?

The mess ups started 27 years ago.

So private sector must foot the bill & HCWs must volunteer...but nobody is in jail. Whilst Universal Healthcare is a must, we can not execute with the current status quo.

If only they had that R500k odd you used to sanitise schools Lesufi 🤷‍♂️

there is an acting Minister of Health and you have challenges of capacity in terms of administration. According to her own logic!

Turning to banks and Ngos after they looted that 500B.... these people are crazy🙄

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