KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo to answer for cancer travesty
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo will square up on Monday to the South African Human Rights Commission‚ which last year slated his department for its failure to provide adequate cancer treatment for the province’s sick. In a report‚ the commission found the department had "violated the rights" of cancer patients at two facilities under investigation‚ largely because of a lack of working equipment and staff shortages. Last month the commission criticised Dhlomo’s department for its slow response to the problems‚ despite the report having been issued being more than 10 months ago. "Ten months later and after many exchanges of correspondence and meetings with the KwaZulu-Natal provincial department of health‚ the commission remains concerned at the lack of meaningful progress. The commission has noted the numerous reports that many cancer patients still lack access to timely and appropriate oncology health care and that some may have already died‚" the statement‚ issued in A...
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