. Policies and programmes in the Southern African Development Community on communicable diseases such as HIV do not extend to migrant patients.
This scenario makes frontline discretion unavoidable. Health care providers have to rely on their own judgement to determine what “best practices” to invoke with relatively little input or interference from other institutions. This suggests that the experiences of non-nationals in South Africa’s public health care system were more complex and varied than implied by the dominant discourse on “medical xenophobia”.
Health care providers reported difficulties interacting with migrant patients who spoke Swahili, French, Portuguese or Chewa.to ensure that migrant patients accessed health care services, often in extremely demanding circumstances. Health care providers made the effort to connect with migrant patients through informal interpreters by asking co-workers or patients fluent in these non-native languages to translate in English or other native languages.
Go back to 2 ur own country and ask for health it's not SA problem