public hearings have resumed after a hiatus during the December holidays.
Lakey urged the parliamentary health committee to consider the needs of the people living with disabilities. "Let us speak about wheelchairs, assistive devices, hearing aids and implants. Where is the NHI going to specify that these are the available resources for persons living with disabilities? But those who attended the hearing in Mangauang were aggrieved by the service offered at public clinics. “I dare you to go to MUCPP Clinic now, you will still find people queuing. You go to the bathroom there is no toilet paper," says a local pensioner Nthabiseng Mpeisa. Esther Mjambane says she goes to the clinic at six o’clock in the morning but she only leaves the clinic at four in the afternoon and her file is always missing."Pensioners suffer, maybe we are wrong to get old.
Members of the local Democratic Alliance branch made their submissions opposing the bill. One member expressed that the NHI will not succeed because it will be vulnerable to corruption and will collapse like state-owned enterprises such as Eskom and South African Airways.
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