EDITORIAL | Where do we draw the line at propping up services?

Volunteers tackled surgery backlog at a tertiary hospital completing 72 surgical procedures, but corruption-hit services can’t be dependent on outside help

01 November 2022 - 20:24

It was heartening to see the skilled hands of volunteers hard at work this weekend reducing a backlog of surgeries at the only tertiary hospital in the Northern Cape...

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