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SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by TMKsouth(op): 11:06am On Aug 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl9Ohy0HYyk

A video of Limpopo province's health MEC (minister) Dr Phophi Ramathuba lashing out at a Zimbabwean patient at a government hospital has sparked an outcry in South Africa.

The MEC is heard telling the patient that migrants are to blame for her department's stretched budget.

Dr Angelique Coetzee, a Solidarity Doctors Network board member, said the MEC was out of line.

“This patient is a victim of the drama between the two countries. Even if they cross the border illegally to get health services, it’s not their fault. She [the MEC] wasn’t supposed to embarrass her like that in front of people.

“It was unethical, unprofessional and out of line. She should have addressed that at a different level,” Coetzee said.


She added that the constitution makes it compulsory for anyone to receive emergency medical attention.

Dr Mike Ramothwala, from the Limpopo department of health, endorsed the MEC's statements, saying: “The last statistics showed that 80% of women giving birth at Musina hospital are illegal Zimbabweans and SA women sometimes didn’t find beds to give birth on. We are trying to fix our healthcare system but we can never do it unless what our MEC is saying is addressed.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/south-africa/2022-08-24-backlash-after-mec-blames-belittles-zim-patient-for-squeeze-on-limpopo-health-budget/

Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Sixfiguresmart(m): 11:30am On Aug 24, 2022
They should quit giving out medical visas especially to politicians and their families.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by TMKsouth(op): 11:32am On Aug 24, 2022
Sixfiguresmart:
They should quit giving out medical visas especially to politicians and their families.
I think the difference is that politicians pay handsomely to be in SA hospitals. Illegal immigrants don't.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Sixfiguresmart(m): 11:46am On Aug 24, 2022
TMKsouth:
I think the difference is that politicians pay handsomely to be in SA hospitals. Illegal immigrants don't.
Then, they are not ready to solve the issues. When it gets intensely diplomatic, they will start placing sanctions on the politicians and their families.

They know that the reason why those people are poor is because of the politicians
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by sammysneh(m): 1:54pm On Aug 24, 2022
What do you expect from South Africans very wicked set of individuals
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by NairaLux(f): 1:54pm On Aug 24, 2022
grin
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Authoreety: 1:54pm On Aug 24, 2022
Really.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by OSUigboFlatHead(f): 1:55pm On Aug 24, 2022
grin
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by aylive02(m): 1:55pm On Aug 24, 2022
grin


The likes of Tinubu and Bubari. Unhealthy men
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by rusher14: 1:55pm On Aug 24, 2022
Sixfiguresmart:
Then, they are not ready to solve the issues. When it gets intensely diplomatic, they will start placing sanctions on the politicians and their families.

They know that the reason why those people are poor is because of the politicians
People being poor cannot be solely because of politicians.

Nigerians should stop thinking this way.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by visijo(m): 1:55pm On Aug 24, 2022
Lol this one na self sub .



I pray we all have a blessed day.
~~~


Person wey God never here him voice for a year. grin
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by pepetua(m): 1:56pm On Aug 24, 2022
Clueless leaders on rampage everywhere.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by christejames(m): 1:56pm On Aug 24, 2022
I know it's our politicians that are overcrowding the hospitals, bunch of visionless twerps...

If the so called CityBoil that owns a private amenity ward in a public teaching hospital in Lagos is patronizing what he claims to develop, and that slowpoke in Aso Rock did same with Aso Villa Hospital, many politicians would have been convinced to use HOME!


Well, ObiDatti gives us a sense of relief! smiley
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by chigoizie7(m): 1:56pm On Aug 24, 2022
I don’t blame her, she is looking out for her people. If our own government were looking out for us, we won’t have Nigerians in SA.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by mofedamijo(m): 1:56pm On Aug 24, 2022
She is right, but she could have addressed it professionally and with other government stakeholders.

If you haven't travelled the length and breath of South Africa, then keep quiet.

Every sector and facilities in South Africa has been stretched by foreigners, mostly Zimbabweans.

How can you be a citizen of a country and cannot even enjoy anything because someone feels entitled to it.

South Africa is beautiful, fun and developed to a great extent. However, illegal immigrants are making life harder for the citizens.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by ecolime(m): 1:57pm On Aug 24, 2022
Sixfiguresmart:
They should quit giving out medical visas especially to politicians and their families.
Our Politicians aren't migrants. They are too corruptly enriched to even go to SA for Medical tourism. Na Western nations dem dey go.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Oddfinder001: 1:57pm On Aug 24, 2022
Good one..
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Grace045(f): 1:57pm On Aug 24, 2022
huh
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by enobong18: 1:58pm On Aug 24, 2022
Our politicians no go hear word, fix 9ja hospitals dem no go do, see na, small remain na we SA for insult so.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by oluwaseyi0: 1:58pm On Aug 24, 2022
I fully support the woman

You can't be coming in to use facilities you ain't paying tax for while the local suffers
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Emeskhalifa(m): 1:59pm On Aug 24, 2022
Immigrants should all go back to their respective countries and demand good governance from their politicians.

If your country is fixed, you won't have any reason to go to other people's country. Those people fought to fix their country. Go back to your own country and get it fixed
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Millimann: 1:59pm On Aug 24, 2022
This is how this government here should start reasoning, not prioritising building a rail from Nigeria to Niger republic and buying SUVs for their officials.
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by jrusky(m): 1:59pm On Aug 24, 2022
But why is SA these bitter in everything now its no longer foreigners taking their women and their jobs but now their hospital?
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by MrSensor(m): 1:59pm On Aug 24, 2022
Let's mind our own business here at home

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Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by SolarEngr(m): 2:00pm On Aug 24, 2022
That's the disgrace you face when you don repair your own but fly out for greener pasture.


That's why come 2023, it's going to be by merit, and not political prowess.

Nigeria will be great again!
Re: SA Health Minister Tells Foreign Patients They Are Overcrowding Hospitals by Boogyman557: 2:01pm On Aug 24, 2022
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