The Northern Cape surgical backlog appears to have ballooned in recent months. The province’s MEC for health says it is due to a lack of specialised theatre staff and delays related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Former Northern Cape health department head Dr Dion Theys, 56, appeared in the Kimberley regional court on Wednesday in another fraudulent PPE-related matter involving R26.9m.
In collaboration with disaster relief organisation, Gift of the Givers, surgical teams have over this weekend performed 72 of these procedures at the Northern Cape s only tertiary academic hospital.