LETTER: Horrible health services
Steve Biko Academic Hospital and other public facilities should be pillars of excellence.
Last week Wednesday I was overwhelmed by emotions and felt disgusted and annoyed after reading a media report on the horrible health services our people are subjected to from one of the public institutions in Pretoria, which is named after one of the most revered Black Consciousness Movement founding fathers — Steve Biko.
This story on the appalling health services at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital made me even angrier because I am on record as demanding that public institutions be named or renamed after other liberation struggle heroes and heroines outside the usual ANC, and its alliance partners, the SACP, Sanco and Cosatu. ..
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