All departmental budgets, including the North West Provincial Legislature except of Department of Health revised downward
North West Finance MEC says that the budgets of all provincial departments and the Legislature have been reduced to make funds available for the Health Department programmes to fight the Coronavirus pandemic.
Department of Health received an additional amount of R1.693 billion consisting of additional funds to the Equitable Share of R1.101 billion, R175.1 million additional funds for the COVID-19 Component within the HIV, TB, Malaria and Community Outreach Grant, R18.5 million for Disaster Relief Grant for COVID-19 and the R399 million internal departmental reprioritization.
“This additional funding aims to address amongst others, human resources capacity to respond to the pandemic, increased bed capacity at hospitals, purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE), health education, screening and management of contacts by quarantining confirmed persons through isolation.
The adjustment is in line with the current focus of government to flatten the curve. This will ensure that government remains on course to prevent new infections. It is important that government is able to detect infections on time”, said Finance MEC Motlalepula Rosho
Departments were requested to adjust their Annual Performance Plans targets to align them to the reprioritised budget without compromising core service delivery programmes.
For more information contact:
Kesalop Gill
Tel: 018 388 3584
Cell: 079 548 6352
E-mail: kgill@nwpg.gov.za
