Top SA military medical staff in hot water over 'irregular' R260m medicine tender

Top SA military medical staff in hot water over ’irregular’ R260m medicine tender
By Baldwin Ndaba
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Cape Town – The parliamentary committee on defence and military veterans has summoned the top medical staff of the South African Military Health Service to appear before it following the alleged irregular procurement of Heberon – a treatment of chronic hepatitis – worth more than R260 million.
Cyril Xaba, the chairperson of the Defence and Military Veterans committee, said his committee was seriously concerned by the lack of planning and disregard for regulatory rules and regulation in the procurement of Heberon ® Alfa R (Heberon), which contains the active ingredient interferon alpha 2b, procured for approximately R260.59 million by the Department of Defence.

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