CLOSE to 400,000 patients at Mpumalanga hospitals go without vital medication daily due to a shortage of prescribed medications.
Health MEC Dikeledi Mahlangu made the admission while answering a DA parliamentary question in the legislature this week.
She said they were failing to honour payments and in return suppliers were freezing the accounts and stopping the supply of medication to depots, hospitals and clinics.
Despite her assurance that the department has set aside R515 million to ensure all hospitals and clinics were fully stocked with medicine by the end of the 2010-11 financial year, the DA questioned why the department was facing cash flow problems.
Source: The Sowetan
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