Healthcare in South Africa has been a huge problem for years – be it in private or the public healthcare sector. The South African Minister of Health commented in an interview recently where he mentioned that the healthcare in South Africa still has a long way to go. I agree! Hospitals in South Africa’s are not led by people who do not have a clue of how hospitals are run nor do they have a medical/health related qualification. For example, hospitals are led by people with qualifications in administration and no medical background whatsoever. How is the healthcare of our county supposed to improve?
Budgets allocated to the infrastructure of hospitals in South Africa are left unspent but the conditions of the hospitals in our country remain unfavorable. Once again this does not make sense. The reason might be the fact that incompetent and unqualified people are allocated to look over the infrastructures of our medical institutions. We need people with visions for out healthcare, a COMPLIANT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT and people who actually have a vested interest in the health of this country and qualified – to lead these medical institutions and assist in making South Africa a better country in terms of its healthcare.
Good one Ayanda, very good topic must say and it is the burning issue at the present moment. Funny enough the people who are caught up in this are the poor; it is so hard for them to have access to proper health care, because it’s so expensive for them.
ReplyDeleteHow about we pay for health and not sickness? The sicker you get the more doctors earns. How about they get paid, and further remunerated on the basis of how many patience they have healed or cured. They give us drugs that will in turn take us back to them just to keep the industry going, that entire Health system to me is bad for SA's. How do you encourage poeple that are under paid, work extremely bad hours for their entire lives, knowingly that alot of qualified nurses working as a teller in a bank or shoprite to perform to the best of their ability. These are just some questions that I have about the system, it hasn't influenced my thinking I still see beyond it. Even that Minister, is just enticing the Public, he'll let it remain as the order of the day. I question everything that is not suppose to be, its not only health.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you fully on this!!
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