Are foreign migrants really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa? Bhekisisa_MG separates fact from fiction.
Refugees, asylum seekers as well as undocumented migrants from states including Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe who need hospital care — should be treated like South African citizens. That means they’ll have to take the means test given to South Africans to determine how much they have to pay for hospital care.breastfeeding women
Nationally, what people pay for hospital services is defined by a patient fee schedule, that lists fees for procedures such as dialysis for patients with kidney failure, for which the state bills full paying patients about R2000 per session. The vagueness of the legislation’s wording leaves it open to a broad interpretation, meaning that this may be more widely used than it was intended to be. Hospitals need some proof of identification to see a patient, and they may also require proof of income. But the failure of staff to communicate what they need and how it can be provided can sometimes lead to patients being turned away when they are unable to offer a South African ID book or an asylum document or a refugee permit.
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