Non-profit organisations Section 27, Treatment Action Campaign, and Cancer Alliance have given the Gauteng Health Department seven working days to address their concerns regarding cancer treatment.
The advocacy groups led a march to the Health Department offices in Johannesburg to deliver a memorandum of demands.
TAC chairperson, Monwabisi Mbasa, accuses the Department of delaying spending over R700-million that was set aside last year by the Gauteng Treasury to outsource treatment for people who are living with c ancer .
Mbasa says over 3 000 patients have been affected by the delay.
We have over 3 000 patients that have been placed on the waiting list and there is money that has been set aside . The impact is that people are dying because the government is not moving , it is sitting on top of that money , we are here to put pressure on the Department to spend this money so that it can save the lives of people that are dying of cancer . We want them to make a commitment in no less than 7 working days, not with a statement, but with action said Mbasa.
Cancer March | 3000 patients awaiting cancer treatment while Gauteng Health sits on R784-million
