The province’s health department has lurched from one scandal and crisis to another.
The story of the Gauteng department of health over the past 12 years has been one of a downward spiral and a damning track record of corruption, maladministration and neglect – and that might be the good news. Worse news is that a snapshot over a 12-year timeline shows that the slide into dysfunction is far from being successfully arrested.
2012 – The department’s accrual debt is flagged by public-interest law centre SECTION27. Mismanagement of budgets means it begins each year paying off debt from the previous year before it can use what’s left to purchase goods and services for hospitals and clinics. Though the department announces that it has paid off years of debt, it comes at the cost of appointing essential staff and the reallocation of budgets.
2014 – The department racks up an outstanding bill of R900-million owed to the National Health Laboratory Services, leading to the suspension of its services to the province.
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