NCOP
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 387
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 03 August 2012
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 20)
Mr D B Feldman (COPE-Gauteng) to ask the Minister of Health:
Whether the accrual of R372 million that is owed to medical device
suppliers by Gauteng hospitals has been settled; if not, why not; if so,
what are the relevant details?
CW492E
REPLY:
The Gauteng Department of Health had recently announced that all accruals
from the previous financial year 2011/12 had been settled by the end of
June 2012. Since the announcement was made by the then MEC for Health in
Gauteng, nobody has ever approached us to state that the announcement is in
fact not true, by virtue of them not being paid.
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