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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Gauteng Health Department was facing medico-legal claims worth R20.8 billion as of the end of March this year, MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Nkomo-Ralehoko delivered her department’s budget vote in the Gauteng Legislature on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The MEC said: “Medico-legal claims are still a major concern for the department. However, we have managed to bring down the rand value of medico-legal claims and the contingent liabilities to R20.8 billion as of the end of March.”<\/p>\n

She said the work of verifying the cases would continue under a legal intervention strategy developed to address the negligence claims.<\/p>\n

“The content of the strategy will include ensuring that we have a dedicated unit that will be working day and night to bring down medico-legal claims. We will further undertake reforms when contracting the CEOs of the hospitals to ensure that their employment contracts include the reduction of medico-legal claims as a key performance,” she said.<\/p>\n

Strengthening governance<\/b><\/p>\n

Nkomo-Ralehoko said the department was working hard to strengthen governance systems internally and ensure greater accountability on how limited state resources were used.<\/p>\n

“We have subjected almost 1 600 senior managers and officials in supply chain management (SCM) and human resources (HR) to a vetting process. Our 106 senior services employees have now submitted their documents for processing by the State Security Agency (SSA),” she said.<\/p>\n

Nkomo-Ralehoko said a further 1487 SCM and HR employees have also submitted completed forms for the SSA to process.<\/p>\n

“We are working with the office of the premier to ensure that forensic investigations in the department are undertaken. We have taken a stance against maladministration and corruption and remain committed to work with Chapter 9 institutions and law enforcement agencies to ensure that the department is rid of bad apples,” she said.<\/p>\n

Nkomo-Ralehoko added that the provincial health department had implemented the rapid work cycle programme for institutions to improve turnaround times on financial system-clearing.<\/p>\n

She said:<\/p>\n

She said the department’s budget allocation for the 2023\/24 financial year was R60 billion. She said they had been allocated conditional grant funding amounting to R13.8 billion, which was used, among other things, to provide tertiary services, HIV\/Aids programmes and training health professionals.<\/p>\n

DA Health spokesperson Jack Bloom said the corruption machine in the department was very efficient indeed.<\/p>\n

“Madam MEC, you are surrounded by snakes and will only progress once they are identified and dismissed. I am sure the lifestyle audits you mentioned this week will be a revelation,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Health Department’s adherence to clean governance has been in the spotlight in the last two years following the murder of its acting chief director: financial accounting Babita Deokaran in August 2021.<\/p>\n

Deokaran was killed after she found and exposed a host of fraudulent and irregular payments at Tembisa Hospital.<\/p>\n

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