Budget cuts at 2 Cape hospitals
2007-03-07 12:52
Cape Town - Budget constraints have forced the Western Cape provincial government to reduce the budget at Groote Schuur Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital, reported Business Day on Wednesday.
The provincial health department has had to cut 90 beds at the province's top health care hospitals to boost primary health care services in townships.
The province is to invest in 100 new beds at Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital in Mitchell's Plain so as to take the strain off GF Jooste Hospital, which cannot cope with the large influx of patients.
Finance MEC Lynn Brown on Tuesday announced that the health department would receive R7bn of the R20bn budget allocated to the province.
Head of the health department Craig Househam said R30m would be cut from Groote Schuur and Tygerberg's combined budgets.
- SAPA