Threshold for hospital purchases raised to R1 million despite widespread abuse
28 March 2023
Despite widespread abuses, the Gauteng Treasury has raised the limit for hospital purchases that can be signed off by the hospital CEO without going to tender from R500 000 to R1 million.
This was disclosed today by Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko in an oral reply to my questions at a sitting of the Gauteng Legislature.
Split-billing is the practice of dividing a contract so that it is just below the R500 000 (now R1 million) limit to avoid going out to competitive tender.
The MEC said that 14 cases of split billing had been picked up at Tembisa Hospital since January last year and no more cases were picked up at any other hospital since September last year.