Tambo Memorial stoma bag shortage ‘traced back to 2023’, despite health department’s assurances
Gauteng Health says a stoma bag shortage at Tambo Memorial Hospital was resolved in July, but a reliable source and years of correspondence suggest the problem is far older and more complicated than the department has admitted.
The Gauteng Department of Health said this week that a stoma bag shortage at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg had been fully resolved, insisting that no patient went without supplies and that stock was now sufficient.
Questions over oversight of the private clinic model Both the DA’s statement and the source’s account described stoma care at Tambo Memorial as being managed outside the hospital’s own pharmacy structures.
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