JOHANNESBURG - Outgoing president of the Health Professions Council of South Africa , Dr Kgosi Letlape, claims that "apartheid is still alive in the health sector" given the under-resourced nature of the public sector.
Letlape said that the standard of healthcare in public hospitals pre-1994 was better than what is currently experienced in the private sector today. However, he said that the private sector was too expensive for the majority of citizens, which he said was "destroying the livelihood of practitioners" working in this sector.
"It is destroying professional autonomy and has become corporatised. You institutions that decide which doctor will work and which doctor won't work. We have preferred provider mechanisms and they discriminate against practitioners. We must not fall into this slumberland of thinking that our private sector is working well.""When I started bringing new technologies here in the public sector, those that were in private would come back into the public sector for training.
MiaLindeque So true...
MiaLindeque ANC came into power. We know what happened. Sies
MiaLindeque Fully and 100% agree no nursing care 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️
MiaLindeque Really - we have had an employee who was initially hospitalised in Lephalale with COVID-19 - not given food (had to phone work to tell us to bring him food), dirty bedding - no bedpan or cathetar (could not get up to go to the toilet himself) and saw a nurse once every 9 hours
MiaLindeque How many people were allowed to visit this health facilities then, how much was the population then which includes immigrants?
MiaLindeque It's hard to disagree. I was around before 1994