Question NW1037 to the Minister of Health
24 March 2025 - NW1037
Letlape, Dr TKS to ask the Minister of Health
What measures are being implemented to (a) reduce medical negligence claims against his department and (b) strengthen accountability within public health facilities?
Reply:
Honourable Member, I wish to respond to your question by referring you back to the Joint Press Conference held by the National Department of Health and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), as well as the Joint Portfolio Committee on Health, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Standing Committee on Appropriations (SCOA) on 24 August and 11 September 2024 respectively, where all the issues you are asking were exhausted in the two mentioned events. Honourable Member will recall the meeting of the 11 September 2024 as Honourable Member was present and participated in it.
I am gladly attaching hereto for Honourable Member, copies of the documents that were presented in the two abovementioned events.
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