Gauteng Health Department pays R62 million to law firm
13 June 2018
The Gauteng Health Department is unable to pay all its suppliers and is desperately short of cash for vital health services, but has paid R62.2 million to law firm Mdlulwa Nkuhlu Inc since January 2016.
This huge payment is revealed by Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa in a written reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature.
According to Ramokgopa, the law firm did work for the Department that included the following:
- Urgent applications to the High Court e.g. to stop Forensic Officers from participating in an illegal mortuary strike;