#SONA2019: Govt to accelerate efforts to address healthcare | IOL News

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SONA2019: An 80-year-old grandmother cannot spend an entire day in a queue waiting for medication, President Cyril Ramaphosa said, emphasizing a need to fix the country's ailing health care system.

CAPE TOWN - The government will accelerate its effort to address the country's health challenges by attending to the capacity of health facilities in the next five years, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in Parliament on Thursday.

He told Parliament about an 80-year-old grandmother and said they could spend an entire day in a queue waiting for medication. As part of the work, the government must urgently improve the quality of the health system, he said.

 

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No offense but has anyone been to a government hospital or clinic lately? There are very few actual South Africans in those long queues. Our health system is not equipped to deal with the influx of illegal refugees.

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