ActionSA MP Dr Kgosi Letlape said that Members of Parliament should consider using public healthcare facilities to improve service delivery in the public sector.
He reasoned that if they used the facilities more, the quality would improve as the facilities would be upgraded, and the service would improveMP Dr Kgosi Letlaphe recommended that public servants should use public clinics and hospitals. Image: Jaco Marais/Die Burger/Gallo Images via Getty Images, Dr Kgosi Letlape spoke during a plenary session of the Portfolio Committee on Health on 11 July.
"I can assure you if all of us get our services from the public sector, the absent professionals, the ghost professionals who are running their private practices, the attitudes of health professionals towards patients, the absence of drugs, the absence of services and lack of equipment will stop," he said."Do you think they are going to put themselves through what the majority of people have to go through?""Their pride cannot allow them to do that.
Motsoaledi was presenting the budget vote for the Department of Health and said the country's healthcare system is unequal. He clarified what the NHI was and its role in international healthcare standards.Tebogo Mokwena is a Current Affairs Editor at Briefly News. He has a Diploma in Journalism from ALISON. He joined Daily Sun, where he worked for 4 years covering politics, crime, entertainment, current affairs, policy, governance and art.
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