JOHANNESBURG – Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane says the country’s public healthcare system needs a complete overhaul in order to serve all South Africans equally.
Maimane was speaking during his visit to the home of HIV activist Lucky Mazibuko in Soweto on Saturday. The DA presented Mazibuko with a certificate of appreciation for his contribution to the fight against the virus.Many South Africans are living today because of the struggle of activists like Lucky Mazibuko." - @MmusiMaimane pic.twitter.com/6gZ92OTx39Maimane said there are South African who don’t have access to life-saving drugs.
“With those who are outstanding, we are not certain that they are getting treatment that they need. On behalf of the DA and as a proud South African, I felt it was important to me to come and recognise the great activism and the work that has been done by Lucky Mazibuko,” he said. Mazibuko agreed with Maimane. Sixteen years ago, he refused to take the life-saving ARV drugs as a form of protest until they were available to all who needed them.“I was on an oxygen mask three times, on a verge of death. Demanding that treatment must be provided to all our people living with HIV. There’s still 3.5 million [people] more to go.”
HermanMashaba MmusiMaimane when you say overhaul, what do you mean? The system needs nothing but staffing, retraining, buying equipment, but we need to start with basic like giving all pregnant women preg-omega, buy more mobile clinics to visit schools, train more specialist Doctors
HermanMashaba *SA's borders need complete overhaul. Can't overhaul the roof when the walls are crumbling everyday, start with the walls.
Discovery will have Gogo helenzille send you to Harvard Mbuzi 🤣 By the way, why did Paul not go to Harvard?
We have a healthcare system?