Question NW2824 to the Minister of Health

Province

(a) total number of hospitals in each province is experiencing food shortages

(b) are the specified shortages

(c) are the reasons that the specified hospitals are experiencing such shortages?

Free State

11

Fruits

Vegetables

Meat and dairy products

Bread

Meat

• Budget constrains

• Unreliable Suppliers and

• accruals, however, fund shifts have been done to provide more funds on the items.

• Delays in terms of delivery by suppliers due to late/non-payment - payment will be authorised on time but disbursed late or supplier refusing to deliver meat because of outstanding payment of bread

• Prolonged Supply Chain processes but is in the process of generating a new order.

• Suppliers don’t always have the capacity to deliver food items, delivering only partially and then cancelling the remainder of order.

• Late payment of suppliers.

Kwa Zulu Natal

The Kwa Zulu Natal health facilities have not experienced any food shortage

N/A

N/A

Mpumalanga

There is currently no hospital in Mpumalanga that experience any shortage of food.

N/A

N/A

Western Cape

The Western Cape health facilities have not experienced any food shortages.

N/A

N/A