High wage bill, medico-legal claims deplete Eastern Cape health budget
The high wage bill at the provincial health department, together with escalating medico-legal claim payouts, will milk the department’s new R26.4bn budget to such an extent that only R4.3bn will be left for core health-care services in the 2021/22 financial year...
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