Cancer Alliance fights back as Gauteng Health appeals ruling on R784m oncology services

Gauteng health applies to appeal against court order to address cancer patient backlog

Health department says patients left waiting years for radiation oncology is 'not an urgent issue' and no backlog list exists

Cancer Alliance fights back as Gauteng Health appeals ruling on R784m oncology services

Court orders urgent action to address Gauteng cancer treatment backlog - Juta MedicalBrief

The unacceptable, unlawful delay in providing treatment to Gauteng cancer patients, which has resulted in some of them dying, has been slammed by the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg), which ordered the Department of Health to take “all steps necessary” to provide radiation oncology services to those on the backlog list at Charlotte Maxeke and Steve Biko Hospitals. The court ruled that the department’s failure to implement a plan to provide time…