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Gauteng health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku says he has a plan to ensure healthcare in the province is improved. Image: Alaister Russel/Sunday Times
DR BANDILE MASUKU

It’s been hard, but we’re going to get things right: new Gauteng health MEC promises big changes

Two months into the job, newly-appointed Gauteng health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku says his journey has been a roller-coaster ride so far. “I haven’t felt that I have arrived, like I have settled in. I don’t think I have landed as yet; we’re…

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The DA’s Jack Bloom says it takes nearly seven hours to register, see a doctor and collect medicine at Steve Biko Hospital. Image: Thulani Mbele. © Sowetan
DR BANDILE MASUKU

Nearly seven hours: that’s how long it takes to get treated at Pretoria hospital

It takes an average of nearly seven hours to register, see a doctor and collect medicine at Steve Biko Academic hospital in Pretoria. That’s according to Gauteng health MEC Bandile Masuku, who revealed recorded average waiting times at…

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GAUTENG HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Gauteng wants to pay medical negligence victims in kind, not cash

By MICHELLE GUMEDE The provincial health department wants to be able to withhold most of a R23m award to pay for the child’s future medical expenses, in a case that has reached the Constitutional Court The Gauteng health department will…

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