Gauteng health department ‘caught with pants down’

AS THE Covid-19 infection numbers continue to skyrocket throughout the world and country, the Gauteng government has allegedly been found wanting and forced to play catchup.

This is according to the DA's shadow MEC for health in the province, Jack Bloom, who this week said Gauteng was behind schedule in terms of completing hundreds of promised beds.

Bloom said the province's poor planning was exposed by the second wave. He said the much-needed beds to cope with the wave were put in less