Letsoha-Mathae questioned the staff's reportedly appalling professional conduct towards the patientsFree State Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae called out nurses for their professional conduct during a provincial facility visit. Images: @ANCFS and @fsgov— A video showing Free State Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae admonishing staff at a provincial health facility during an unannounced visit has social media abuzz.
Patient mistreatment, unreasonably long waiting times and staff and resource shortages, including inadequate budgets, have long constrained South Africa's public healthcare system."The Premier of Free State visited one of the hospitals/clinics dressed like an ordinary citizen just to see how the nurses patients. She got shocked to learn that people are ."has contacted the premier's office to verify the video's authenticity and obtain the facts surrounding the visit.
"It doesn't look like we train these people to be prepared for what is going to happen when they come to the ."But you go for it anyway, and once you get the job . But that's not going to happen; not anymore. We will not subject our people to this kind of treatment.
"The complaints we hear from the public aren't nice. We are public representatives and they hit out at us. The people punished the ANC because of such. When they punish, they do it to the government."The video had clocked over 150,000 views, about 2700 likes and 1000 reposts within three hours of posting."People are too relaxed in most public institutions. I guess it's the way they are being paid.