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Cape Town Company Accused Of Excessive Pricing To Donate Face Masks

By  |  March 15, 2021

A medical equipment supplier accused of charging excessive prices for examination gloves has supplied a government department with 49,400 surgical face masks to the same value as the estimated “excessive profits” it generated.

This arrangement forms part of the terms of a consent agreement between the Competition Commission of South Africa and Supra Healthcare Cape Town.

Supra Healthcare is accused of having charged the Western Cape department of health excessive prices for gloves between May and June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In June 2020, the Commission received information about alleged inflated prices being charged by Supra Healthcare for medical examination gloves.

The department alleged the prices charged were higher than the regulatory pricing guideline provided by the National Treasury.

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