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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year
Health Facilities’ Access to Broadband

In total 804 health facilities will be connected under the Provincial OTP Broadband Project with 100MB
fibre connections. The rollout of these sites falls under the State Information Technology Agency (SITA)/
Liquid Telecom (LTSA) agreement. Thus far assessments have been completed at 19 sites.

As part of the ECDoH ICT innovation, the HMS2 electronic medical record system will be implemented as
part of the e-Health suite of products. The system is in-house developed and has gone through the NDoH

review process and has been certified for HPRS integration.

4. 4. Reprioritisation

The department has reprioritised its budget to core items to improve service delivery. The department is
maintaining an organizational structure that was created to execute a housing mandate, which is not in

line with the expectations of leading an agenda for creation of integrated and sustainable Human
Settlements. The department continues to reprioritize within its baseline to accommodate budget
challenges.

5. 5. Procurement

In 2022/23, Goods and Services required as per procurement plans to be sourced from the national

contracts in respect of inventories (medicine and medical supplies) and the provisional transport trading
entity for fleet services. National agreement are already in place with the National Health laboratory
services (NHLS),South African National Blood Services (SANBS) and Telkom. The department will

continue to improve the Local Economic Development (LED strategy) focusing on local procurement for
services.

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