ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL
Revoking Life Esidimeni contract ‘cost hundreds of jobs’
About 700 healthcare workers lost their jobs, Life Esidimeni arbitration tribunal told
About 700 healthcare workers lost their jobs after the Gauteng health department had terminated its contract with three Life Esidimeni facilities. This was the testimony of Levy Mosenogi, chief director of planning, policy and research in the department, before the Life Esidimeni arbitration tribunal taking place in Johannesburg. The hearings are being held to find out why more than 118 psychiatric patients had died and to give affected families closure and compensation. Mosenogi testified on Tuesday that budget constraints and concern raised by the auditor-general that there were repeated renewals of the contract had been behind the scrapping of the contract with a private healthcare provider in 2015. The JSE-listed Life Healthcare is the second-largest private healthcare provider in SA with a R38bn market capitalisation.
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