DA: It's appalling that Gauteng Health Dept owes more than R3bn to more than 42,000 suppliers
JOHANNESBURG - The Gauteng Health Department has maintained that it is not in a financial crisis, this despite owing thousands of service providers more than R3.1 billion.
The Democratic Alliance 's provincial spokesperson on health, Jack Bloom, said that one of the suppliers who had halted services due to a lack of payment was Buhle Waste, a company tasked with removing medical waste, while patients at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital had no bread supplies for over two weeks.
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