State lab appeals to provinces to pay their bills on time
The National Health Laboratory Service provides all the diagnostic tests for patients using state services, including those for Covid-19
10 March 2021 - 14:25
The state laboratory has urged provincial health departments to pay their bills on time, warning that even a 10% drop in revenue would compromise its ability to deliver services.
Its appeal comes as it faces a sharp reduction in transfers from the National Treasury over the medium-term expenditure framework, and provincial health departments grapple with budget cuts of their own...
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