FOCUS: HEALTH GOVERNANCE
Doctors, experts owed millions by Road Accident Fund
Millions are owed to doctors and other healthcare specialists, with bills stretching to a decade ago in some cases and others forced to retrench staff or downscale their practices as the Road Accident Fund (RAF) dodges payment for services, reports MedicalBrief.
Acccording to witness testimony heard by Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts last week, millions are still awaiting payment for work done more than a decade ago, said Mariëtte Minnie-Botbijl, owner of a close corporation that helped facilitate payments...

