Helen Joseph Hospital attack highlights need for new security tenders
28 February 2023
The appalling attack this past weekend on a nurse at the Helen Joseph Hospital highlights the need for new security contracts at Gauteng public hospitals.
Hospital security contracts were last awarded in 2014 for a two-year period that expired in November 2016.
Although an investigation found irregularities in the award of these contracts they have been rolled over on a month-by-month basis for more than six years.
The Auditor-General has condemned this as irregular expenditure every year since, but the Gauteng Health Department has been slow to re-advertise the contracts.