The national and provincial departments of health and education have paid up to five times more than they should have for personal protective equipment (PPE) to fight the spread of the coronavirus, says auditor general Kimi Makwetu
Makwetu on Wednesday released the first in a series of reports expected from his office in the coming weeks and months.
“Contrary to these instructions, our analyses of orders placed by health departments identified that some items were priced at more than double and even five times the prescribed price. Similar instances were identified in the procurement of PPE in the education sector where the national and provincial departments are not procuring PPE at market-related prices.”
In other cases auditors found the quality of supplied PPE to be poor. “The problem with the quality of PPE purchased is most evident in a few schools that were visited where the masks provided were not to specifications and were often one-size-fits-all [whether for a child or an adult].
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