Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is a courageous leader, emotional and passionate about trying to improve the lives of ordinary people. He has taken on pharmaceutical companies, describing their opposition to more consumer-friendly medicine patent laws as “genocide”.
But after a decade of Motsoaledi’s leadership, the health service shows no signs of improving and the National Health Insurance scheme, the vehicle that is supposed to drive South Africans’ access to universal health care, remains on blocks parked in the Presidency. Only five of the nearly 700 public health facilities that it inspected achieved a pass , with facilities in Limpopo and Eastern Cape scoring 43% on average.
But the national government’s only real recourse to protect citizens from weak and spendthrift provincial departments has been to place them under administration in terms of Section 100 of the Constitution. Between the health department and the Treasury, South Africa has negotiated the cheapest ARVs in the world – and last week the health department managed to persuade the US not to cut its fundingBut in the next five years, the government is going to need to make real progress in introducing universal healthcare. Its chosen plan is the National Health Insurance scheme, which will be compulsory for all workers and aims to offer every person in the country the same basic healthcare.
No, he speaks too slow and too many hand gestures... communication problems ahead
How are going to know if have other capable people or not if we do not reshuffle him or replace him?
Stay for the what?
Answer : NO !!!
He tried but he needs to step aside now for new leadership, different strategies, I applaud him for pitching when the is an interview, but the department is not getting better
Hell no! The DoH is on life support 'cos of his bad leadership
What a torturous question! 😬👄
He must fast voertsek that one! Useless autocrat who'll strain at a gnat and swallow a camel He's the Jomo Sono of Health Department: it's spokesperson, DG, deputy minister, business and system analyst when all goes well but is quick to say 'angazi' when bad management's exposed
NO he is one of the worst incompetent ministers. Health department has collapsed under his watch
Time up. Happy pension
How many ways are there to say no...?
DlaminiZuma must fix the Health System of SA
Useless hell no
A definite NO however Ramaphosa should retain him in a Low Key position because he is one of the FEW that are not tainted with corruption, stealing and looting. 🤔🤔He will have to accept accountability
Absolutely Not our health system is in shambles he gets away with Murder (literally)
No. Definitely NOT. NO BODY FROM THE ANC
Aron Motsoaledi must be shown the doors for reducing the public health care of SA to tatters. He downgraded health facilities of small towns to just ordinary HC. Many have died on the way while they were being transported to neighbouring hospitals. ATTENTION!!! CyrilRamaphosa
sapolnews A big NO. And get rid of his NHS adviser - she's leading him up the garden path.
A big NO,he doesn’t have a clue what he hope to achieve: Health in a Mass!
oh god pls no
NO NO NO NO NO 143 TIMES
NO!
What for
yes he should. hes the best for the job wev seen.
The guy is uselles
Whole ABC must be removed from governing
No, public healthcare is a mess and all he talks about is NHI which would make the arms deal corruption look like a tea party
No
Useless..he is
Not as if there is anything left to “break” healthcare is just about as broken as it gets, how is it possible that you go to a hospital and they tell you to bring your own mattress and bedding, so it you happy with that - let him stay?
Noooooooooo
Hell no, he is a disgrace!
It's time for the old man to vamoose
If we the people of South Africa want our health care to actually care about us, then no, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi must go same as all the other incompetent or corrupt ANC ministers. SAElections2019
No
Time for him to go to pension
He must go back to his spaza surgery in Jane Furse... the minister who always says that is the competency of the province... I didn’t know, there is nothing the National department can do.
Hell no AaronMotsoaledi must go. So must All deputies, they must go ParliamentofRSA PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa JacksonMthembu_ tito_mboweni. Our_DA MmusiMaimane EFFSouthAfrica Julius_S_Malema AdvDali_Mpofu
No, just no
NOOOOOOO!
No no no no
The Health portfolio needs to change... remove Hazardous Substanses and Food Safety to Labour and Agriculture respectively.
Great piece of writing. Nice one Kerry.
Please don't tag him, he might start crying.... 😂😂😂😂
Good riddance. He is such a useless someone
Any victory over HIV (magnificent though it is) has little to do with the MOH or the ANC. ARVs are funded by the USA
The advocate of NHI who so much want to promulgate it without a feasibility study relating to affordability, must just go.
No no no no no no no no.
NO ... and all provincial health ministers should be sacked except WC
No he must fotsek
Why is this even a question?
A million times No!
Nooo!!!
Why not ask the families of the people he sent to their deaths?
Absolutely not
Not sure when last he uttered a word on health.
No. A million times no!
Hell no!
No,he should never have been appointed.
No, he should go and continue with his surgery in Jane Furse
No
He’ll No
Remember Life Esidemeni?
NO absolutely NO. He has done absolutely nothing for healthcare - just a title and a salary
Ffs!!! No no no
No.
NO
No please... he is just another stooge....he is not capable of tying his shoe laces
A very hard NO from me
Good God NO
No. He is useless. Get a driven doctor to manage the countries health system.
I can’t put my finger on anything he has done in the past decade, so my answer is a resounding NO.
Depends on the standards you are willing to accept. If it is anything near decent healthcare, then no!
Hell no!!
No. There are young health professionals in the ANC who can do the job.
Hell no
No
NO!
Forget accomplishments or lack thereof. He is 61yrs old. Time to retire.
Time for Motsoaledi to go. The man doesn’t know what he’s doing. How can we have NHI when hospitals are in such a mess and he obviously can’t see it. He thinks NHI will fix everything!
Hayi
No
I think he's fatigued
No
NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO. A complete waste of money and an enabler of so much that is bad about our healthcare system.
No
No
He should never have been....but then compared to that previous ANCorrupt Veggie and Garlick hawker, he's a shining ANCorrupt star......disastar!
The Pres will chose who he likes as his Cabinet Min yo poll serves zero purpose and yo disapproval irrelevant . Get over it n write articles wth sense.
Fuck no, him and his NHI can take a hike. Look at public health, its absolutely disgusting, he should actually be locked up.
Really now! You expect an answer?
Why the question ? Look at all his great accomplishments .......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes.
He is a good speaker, useless overall for 10 wasted years
NO!
Absolutely NO !!
Hell NO!! The man has no clue what his doing. Completely out of his depth like so many in the MYANC
We are more unhealthy since
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