# The Public Servants Association is alarmed that all provincial health departments, except the Western Cape, owe the National Health Laboratory Service nearly nine-billion-rand. The PSA warns that the laboratory service, which serves over 80-percent of the population, is struggling with financial strain, staff shortages, and budget cuts, putting essential services like antivenom production and HIV treatment for one-million patients at risk. The association’s Claude Naiker urges Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi to intervene.
PSA concerned over R9-billion debt owed by provincial health departments to Laboratory Service