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EC health department puts brakes on medical motorbikes

08 July 2020 - 07:00 By mpumzi zuzile
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The Eastern Cape health department was expected to deploying 100 modified motorbikes to reach patients in deeply rural areas.
The Eastern Cape health department was expected to deploying 100 modified motorbikes to reach patients in deeply rural areas.
Image: EC MEC Health via Facebook

The use of 100 motorbikes to transport patients in Covid-hit Eastern Cape has skidded to a halt.

That's because the provincial health committee has questions about the R10.2m tender to supply them.

 

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