The Gauteng health department pays R450,000 a month for repairs and maintenance of CCTV equipment.
Delihlazo says criminals have noticed the neglect of security and weekends are especially tough for health workers. “It often happens that many taverns in communities are closer to the clinics. Once drunk, some community members would just come into facilities to cause havoc and sometimes injure nurses.”
According to spokesperson for the Gauteng department of health Kwara Kekana, the security contracts cover general security, deployment, and monitoring CCTV. Kekana says these contracts are not standardised as each facility’s security needs and risks are different. “Every facility pays security services from its budget for goods and services or its operational budget.”
Kirsten Pearson, project specialist at Corruption Watch, says National Treasury supplies chain management Instruction Note 3 of 2016/17 which states contracts should not be expanded by more than 15% of the original value. “The instruction note expressly warns that deviations in excess of the prescribed threshold will only be allowed in exceptional cases and the department must obtain prior written approval from the relevant Treasury.
Pearson says this lack of consequence management is a concern that has been highlighted repeatedly by the AG's reports. “Accountable officials in a range of institutions are failing to ensure that procurement follows the required legislative prescripts. Officials who have acted in a manner that gave rise to procurement irregularities rarely face consequences and persist in doing so year after year,” she says.
But according to Bloom, an earlier forensic audit of these contracts found that there were irregularities in awarding the contracts, and at one stage criminal charges were laid against the chair of the bid evaluation committee. Despite this, the same contracts were extended and continue to be extended on a month-to-month basis.
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