JOHANNESBURG – The Cancer Alliance’s case against the Gauteng Health Department has been postponed.
The case centres on what the Alliance describes as the department’s failure to properly use R784 million to “urgently” address the backlog in cancer treatment.
In April this year, the department said R534 million of the funds was being invested in equipment and R250 million, allocated to procure planning services for outsourcing treatment.
However, the Alliance says nothing “meaningful” has been done yet and desperate patients are still in limbo.
The case was brought on an urgent basis and set down for hearing on Tuesday in the High Court in Johannesburg.
But Section 27, which represents the Cancer Alliance in these proceedings, said that while the department was initially given until12 July to file its opposing affidavit, it subsequently requested an extension and only wound up submitting it on the 19th.
This has further delayed the Cancer Alliance’s reply, which means the matter could not proceed as planned on Tuesday and so was instead postponed.
A new date is yet to be allocated.
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