26 July 2013
Times Live
Gauteng hospitals have been plagued by medicines running out and shortages of surgical gloves and syringes - so the health minister is changing the way hospitals buy supplies
No longer will 20 hospitals in Gauteng rely on "middlemen" or drug depots infested with fraud and incompetence.
Instead, hospitals will be able to buy medicines and other supplies themselves, and have them delivered directly.
Yesterday, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, the Gauteng health department and Wits University signed an agreement that gives doctors and Wits professors the right to place orders directly with suppliers.
