Cosatu to seek court interdict to prevent closing of 60 beds at Groote Schuur from today.(News)

From: Cape Times (South Africa) | Date: September 17, 2007 | Copyright information

BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN

COSATU will seek a court interdict to stop the Health Department from closing 60 beds at Groote Schuur from today.

The bed closures, ordered in a memo issued on Thursday by Groote Schuur's chief operations officer, Saadiq Kariem, follows confirmation of the cuts by Health MEC Pierre Uys as part of a R30 million reduction in the budgets of Groote Schuur and Tygerberg hospitals after Finance MEC Lynne Brown's provincial budget announcement for 2007/08 in March.

Once patients are discharged, no new patients are then admitted to those beds ...

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