#Health4Sale | Tribunal orders controversial ambulance companies to pay back over half-a-billion rand

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Free State, Healthcare system, InFocus, Latest, North West, Provinces, Spotlight

The Special Tribunal has ordered four ambulance companies run by Thapelo Buthelezi to pay back a total of over half-a-billion rand. The matter relates to contracts awarded by the Free State government, which were first reported on in Spotlight’s #Health4Sale series of investigative articles in 2018.

#Health4Sale | Tribunal orders controversial ambulance companies to pay back over half-a-billion rand

Gauteng state doctors gear up to fight health department over overtime payments

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Gauteng, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, InFocus, Latest, Provinces, Spotlight

Trade unions, medical associations and universities are raising the alarm that Gauteng budget cuts at the cost of doctors’ take-home pay will have dire consequences for public sector health. Meanwhile, the National Minister of Health has convened a committee to review the future of overtime for state doctors. Ufrieda Ho reports.