LETTER: NHI is lunacy
Hospitals run by the governing party are in a decrepit state, so the last thing is for it to even contemplate the National Health Insurance scheme
20 August 2019 - 05:01
I was employed as a medical technician at a major teaching hospital in Cape Town that is now run by the DA administration. My fields of training included sterilisation and kidney dialysis. Hospitals controlled by the DA meet international medical standards, and in some cases, the research done there is ground-breaking.
I was also part of a team investigating the conditions of hospitals and clinics in the Eastern Cape, and was taken aback at the sloppiness and downright inefficiency at these much-needed medical facilities. ..
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