Parliamentary committee calls for urgent action to address public healthcare challenges [SOUND]

# Parliament’s Select Committee on Social Services has called for accountability and immediate interventions to address weaknesses in the public health system. It received a briefing from the Department of Health on its annual report. The department has maintained its unqualified audit opinion and achieved its target of paying 100-percent of valid invoices within 30 days. Chairperson Desery Fienies says they are concerned about the gap between budget expenditure and the lived reality of public healthcare patients: