Opinion

A strong cure for our troubled hospitals

30 June 2019 - 00:00 By William Gumede

Many large public hospitals underperform because their boards, managements and staff have little control even over something as small as buying toilet paper. There have been incidents of patients mistreated by staff, critical medicine shortages and maintenance failures...

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