# The Board of Healthcare Funders says healthcare systems across Southern Africa are under unprecedented pressure, primarily driven by dwindling budgets, severe understaffing and the rising burden of diseases. According to the Special Investigating Unit, an estimated 15-percent of healthcare spending is compromised by fraud, waste and abuse, costing the sector close to 30-billion-rand. Board of Healthcare Funders’ Leonard Lekgetho says common abuses identified include procurement irregularities, counterfeit medicines, price-fixing and fraudulent billing through duplicate claims and over-servicing:
Healthcare systems across Southern Africa are under unprecedented pressure [SOUND]
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