Permit me to start by quoting you. In your state of the nation address in June last year you talked about an 80-year-old grandmother who “cannot spend an entire day in a queue waiting for her medication”. Well, she and others are still spending their days waiting. What is worse. Many like this grandmother after the long wait will most likely be sent home empty-handed because of a shortage of medicines at some health facilities.
In that speech you referred to health 15 times and mainly focused on the NHI – more specifically the war room in the presidency. How is the war on a dysfunctioning public health sector going? We could really do with a comprehensive progress report rooted in the lived realities of the people dependent on our crumbling public healthcare system.
In some respects you have made some inroads, especially in the fight against corruption. That is very encouraging. Grim statistics on unemployment of 29% is another issue you are set to highlight in your state of the nation address, and rightfully so. But let us consider for a minute also the employment situation in the public health sector.
Furthermore, we need a clear and implementable national plan for the training, employment and retaining of healthcare workers, Mr President. Maybe you can speed up the new human resources strategy for health that is in the pipeline and ensure that it actually gets implemented.Last month, staff allegedly turned away a pregnant woman at a clinic in KwaZulu-Natal and she had to give birth in a taxi.
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