Health officials’ R2.6m hotel bill ‘a bitter pill’
Workers bemoan ‘wasteful expenditure’ after pair seconded to Livingstone hospital cluster run up huge accommodation costs
The Eastern Cape health department forked out almost R3m to house two senior officials for up to three years at Gqeberha hotels, leaked documents show.
The health officials were seconded to the city at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 to help Livingstone and PE Provincial hospitals turn a corner, incurring hefty accommodation costs of about R2.6m...
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