a) Yes, on the 6th November 2023, the department still had COVID-19 Vaccine-Janssen in storage at the national level, at Biovac. A total of 192 000 doses are available for distribution.

b) The value of the 192 000 doses of COVID-19 Vaccine-Janssen vaccines, available at the national level is R 31 149 360,00 including VAT (Average ROE for USD R18.81).

c) The COVID-19 vaccine Janssen is currently ...

According to the Health Professions Council of South Africa:

1. (a) Three (3) officials have been dismissed for committing fraud and/or corruption;

(b) The offences related to firstly accepting compensation in cash or otherwise, from an HPCSA stakeholder in return of assisting applicants with their registration and secondly the commitment of fraud with the HPCSA credit card; and

(c) The legal and disciplinary process ...

According to the Health Professions Council of South Africa:

The HPCSA can release information about practitioners but in strict adherence to the Protection of Personal Information Act 2013 (Act No. 4 of 2013).

(a)-(e) With that consideration in mind, the HPCSA can indicate the following regarding the registration of practitioners under the Psychology Professional Board:

a) The underspending within infrastructure funding amongst others, are mostly due to unforeseen incidents such as floods, construction interruption by communities, inability of service providers to deliver in time, which result in termination of contracts.

Current antiretroviral (ARVs) contracts within HIV&AIDS program were awarded at much lower rates compared to previous contracts, this has resulted in savings and in underspending while much needed drugs ...

The Department of Health has continuously encouraged the provincial DoH’s to pay the NHLS for all services rendered and continue to support the NHLS in this matter and the debt is treated as a priority.

The NHLS CEO has advised that she is in continuous engagement with the provincial Heads of Department (HODs) to follow up on the outstanding debt and to ensure that ...

The Department has introduced the Human Resources Training Grant (HRTG) to amongst other required speciality areas create a pool of trained specialists to enhance capacity in essential services that includes radiation oncology. The Grant is funding 52 Registrar posts of Radiation Oncology that are in various years of their training programme between first to fourth year.

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According to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), 217 foreign trained applicants sat for theory examinations on the 25th of October 2023.

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a) Ambulances are allocated to EMS stations which are either stand-alone or co-located in hospitals, clinics, and other public facilities. Ambulances are therefore not allocated to each hospital.

b) The number of ambulances procured in 2023-24 financial year per province is as per table below:

(a) According to the Gauteng Department of Health, bodies were taken to both Hillbrow (Johannesburg) and Diepkloof Forensic mortuaries for the following reasons.

• The Diepkloof Forensic Mortuary was used for the postmortem examinations. It was also as a central storage for bodies so that families can access one central point for identification of family members.
• The Hillbrow (Johannesburg) Mortuary was used to conduct advanced ...

1. and (2) The table below reflects the details in this regard.