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"It's Unfair", South African Health Minister Criticises Zimbabwe For Sending Patients To SA Without Paying

7 months agoSat, 10 Aug 2024 09:14:17 GMT
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"It's Unfair", South African Health Minister Criticises Zimbabwe For Sending Patients To SA Without Paying

South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi criticised Zimbabwean and other African leaders for seeking medical treatment abroad while failing to provide adequate healthcare for their citizens at home.

In comments made to the media during the ANC NEC Lekgotla in Benoni, this week, Motsoaledi used an analogy, likening the leaders to a father who tells his children to eat next door rather than engaging the neighbour to help address the family’s challenges.

The Health Minister suggested that countries like Zimbabwe should emulate the approach taken by Eswatini, which is ruled by King Mswati III.

Eswatini has ensured that its citizens pay for medical care when seeking treatment in South Africa. He said:

Eswatini has a medical aid not like ours. Because they are a tiny country, when one of their hospitals cannot treat you, they send you to South Africa via that medical aid and the medical aid pays for you. That means the country pays.

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Motsoaledi revealed that South Africa had previously advised the Eswatini government that sending patients to private hospitals in South Africa, which charge very high fees, would collapse Eswatini’s medical aid scheme.

As a result, the two countries reached an arrangement whereby Eswatini nationals covered by the medical aid scheme are instead treated at academic hospitals in South Africa, which charge lower rates than private facilities.

Motsoaledi stated that this collaborative arrangement between Eswatini and South Africa is still in place and working well for both nations.

While initially avoiding directly naming Zimbabwe, Motsoaledi went on to strongly criticize the Zimbabwean government under President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU PF party.

Motsoaledi took issue with Zimbabwe sending its citizens to South Africa for free medical treatment, stating that this practice is unfair to South Africa.

Instead, the Health Minister suggested that Zimbabwe should request technical assistance from South Africa to help strengthen its healthcare system, rather than simply “throwing” its patients across the border.  He said:

Other neighbours don’t do that. They just close their eyes and let people cross the border [into South Africa]… It’s unfair. And I want to say this publicly even though [it’s] sensitive.

When Phophi Ramathuba was being attacked by all and sundry, during that period when she was being attacked, she received a letter from a patient sent to South Africa by a GP in Zimbabwe. “The lady has got cancer, stage 4 already… please give that lady a pint of blood.”

In other words, one country asking another country… I will tell you why that is abhorrent to me. Blood is not manufactured.

We get it from the population. There are human beings in Zimbabwe and they have blood, lots of it, for that matter.

All they need to do if they don’t have the technology of taking that blood is to come to South Africa [and say], “Can you help us with people who are going to get people to donate blood in our country” instead of closing their eyes and throw their people over the border. It’s unfair.

Part of the reason is that Heads of State on this continent, and it is the only continent, when they are sick they go to other continents and leave their nationals alone. We have asked that that has to stop.

Ramathuba is the Premier of Limpopo Province and a former Limpopo Member of the Executive Council (MEC of Health).

She stirred controversy in August 2022 when, as MEC, she berated a Zimbabwean female patient seeking surgery at Bela-Bela, a public hospital in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.

She was filmed telling the Zimbabwean woman that foreigners were overburdening South Africa’s health sector.

The remarks attracted varying responses from people of all walks of life with fellow medical practitioners saying Ramathuba had violated the profession’s ethics.

The Zimbabwean Embassy in Pretoria expressed “shock and disbelief” over the video and conveyed its concerns through the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa said that Ramathuba could have raised the issue of immigrants using South Africa’s healthcare services “in another way”.

While answering parliamentary questions, Ramaphosa said Ramathuba had “raised an important issue” of how “service delivery is affected by migration”.

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chimukela · 7 months ago
He singled Eswatini only indicating all other neighbors are not cooperative at times we don't need to attack our country unnecessarily
foxbat · 7 months ago
hezvo zanu munoti ndimi vagoni vebasa isai mishonga muzvipatara
Mutundo · 7 months ago
Aaron Motsoaledi is very correct , the zimbabwean health authorities should take notes ! Instead they chose to put a minister who knows Gun !
Bullion · 7 months ago
Is there proof that Zimbabwe sends patients to South Africa? Coz I think if they are sent you don't need to engage the press you just send back to Sender.... 🤔
BIG T 🫖☕🍵 The only big boy in town · 7 months ago
@shurushuru ukwane wazwa ere
shurushuru · 7 months ago
kuZanu choziikanwa chaicho zero. kuba chete. imagine kutenderera nyika yose muchitenga mbudzi after two months motenderera muchidzosera mbudzi dziya kuvaimbove varidzi vadzo and call that Presidential Goats Scheme hahahaha. chero muECD anotoona kuti kuba chete uku. and to compound the matrix mari yacho yobva yadyiwa.. vakai nyika vene not kubata vanhu kumeso. mari yashandiswa infant yatambiswa pachiSADC summit hosting could have been used to upgrade the dilapidated provincial hospitals. zanu is anti people and their supporters are equally naive. unotoona kuti maHeroes atiri kurangarira mangwana aya died in vain.soon the Zambian govt will be singing the same chorus. zimbos are also crossing zambezi as much as they are crossing limpopo for health care. in Lusaka at a govt hospital US$20 can cover a scan, x-ray, prescribed medication and you still get change just imagine, utopia!
Zeus mfana · 7 months ago
We ve flooded rsa hospitals ain't u ashamed zanu pf no medications, equipment our hospitals
. · 7 months ago
kushaiwa Paracetamol chaiyo akomana!
Bodogo · 7 months ago
I have never seen such foolishness as that I am witnessing here in Zimbabwe. let the South Africans blame you. icho chinoita kuti Zimbabwe isatenga mishonga nemishina yemuzvipatara chii ASI tichikwanisa kutengera vanhu MOTA . izvozvi mumwe munhu akarwara nhasi chaiye harapwi muno anobhururuka ne private jet kuenda ikoko ku South Africa ko rapiwa. ASI chii nhai Munyika yedu? what is really going on? we need better answers. chiiko nhai Zimbabwe nhaiwe? pamwe ndiwe ungatipa mhinduro chaiyo nokuti ndiwe urikuona zvose. hapana kwausiri. handiti muzvipatara zvose urimo here Nhai Zimbabwe Ku parirenyatwa uriko iwe Zimbabwe nekuGomowo uriko futi. imo Munyika Yako chaiyo hapana pausingazivi kuti zvii zvikuitika. Zimbabwe tinodawo mhinduro inogutsa . ukatipindura zvanaka kubva nhasi hatizombofi takakunetsa zvekare . ndini mwana wako chaiye chaiye
Corruptmore Looto · 7 months ago
Usa blame nyika iwe 😡😡. The land has given us everything we might need to be successful, we only have our foolish selves to blame for failing to create a prosperous economy which this land rightly deserves
mculi nthube · 7 months ago
I gave them free wifi, come next campaign season I will give them free blood. Lots of free blood!
. · 7 months ago
.... Our blood!
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Where's Chris Monica mutsvanga Jona Moyo George charamba waiting for your comments I don't even know our health minister
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Apa wataura Dama, Dai wauya Ku SADC uvaudze vavake ma hospitals nema soccer ground. Ukasauya iwewe hapana anovaudza. Come to Zimbabwe and tell SADC to built hospitals and stadiums in their own countries.
Eee Dee pfee Corruption pfacha · 7 months ago
Ed could be regretting having to host the summit. It seems both ANC and DA are vying to get credit for solving the Zimbabwe crisis which has become a pain in the a r s e for the Sadc region,. He will be in for some quizzing and grilling. With diplomacy not being his gift, the usual bullying and arrogance won't work here and he might come out with a bruised ego.
44yrs · 7 months ago
Chokwadi chikataurwa chinongorwadza ndabatikana nezvatinoitwa kudayi
Dhadza · 7 months ago
Minister kutaura zvakadaro. Ndiyo channel inotevedzwa here?
Patz · 7 months ago
He was talking in the ANC NEC ( National Executive Council) the equivalent of Zanu pf politiburo. So what channel are you talking about. Zanu Pf politiburo also discuss international issues
chapwititi · 7 months ago
paivapo. . .kare kare pasi pasati parohwa nezamu rebere,sadza richiwanika pasi pemuti.ndizvo ndizvo namanje taka discover diesel kuchinhoyi.
theLastAntKing · 7 months ago
this time dai ma Zimbabwe ese akabira mhiri kwa Limpopo nekuti iyo SA ndiyo #1 yasvitsa Zimbabwe pairi nhasi Kubva Thabo Mbeki to present their political stance is biased towards revolutionary BH. When the current president was poisoned he was airlifted to SA Current VP was once treated in SA & later to China, so why not citizens? Let them come in thousands until anc wake up
lootocrats · 7 months ago
that's what you get when you support lootocrats and dictatorships not forgetting those who steal elections 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗶 .
That guy · 7 months ago
vamwe varikutoona kunge zviri right Zim has gone to the dogs
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Zvinhu 2 kana 3 zvandadzidza 1. Aaron aneshungu dzekuti vatungamiri vemuAfrica vave responsible nevanhu venyika yavo, ipapo ari right. 2. Pane team rekumusha kwedu riri arrogant, Haridi kunzwa zvakadaro, vanomhanya kusvora Aaron vachiti vanovengwa. 3. Muenzaniso unopihwa Aaron wakajeka wababa vanotuma vana vavo kunodya panextdoor zvongonzi next door ngaasazvitaura, akataura akaipa. 4. Pane kamwe kahu arrogance Kari kubuda mumacomments ari pano apa.
44yrs · 7 months ago
Mataura chokwadi apa arrogance dzacho dzakanyanya
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Do like Zimbabwe do. When planes fly over Zim they charge for air space. When a Zim, citizen goes to the hospital invoice Zanu-pf. They caused the problem.
drc · 7 months ago
ndozvaari akamboti vese vasina mavalid passport havarapiwi kkkk . zvaaari kuita zviri ryt Uri kutaridza hurumende yelooting kuti vabe vachisiya zvimwe kuita vana vezimbabwe
👀👀 · 7 months ago
gotwe rangu ndera 2001 ndakazvarira paSeke north ckinic,during Mugabe regime,taipiwa everything kusanganisira cotton chaiwo,chikafu maipiwa heavy menu ,tea yaifamba hobvu even pakati pehusiku chaipo,ndirikuti chako yaive preparation nekupusha mwana,mvura inodzya tekugeza yaiveko ,l mean everything was gd back then,go and pay a visit now kana kunozvarirako,unochidemba chawakaimerera,unoira kunge waenda kunotenga mwana wako uriwe wakatakura mimba yacho,kunzi tenga ne cord clamp chaiyo here ne surgical blade chairo,zvanyanya
Corruptmore Looto · 7 months ago
Handi makapihwa nyika naSmith iri the Fifth Most Industrialised Country South Of The Sahara. Things were pretty okay for African standards but as the years went by Zanu's incompetence took its toll
👀👀 · 7 months ago
vanhu zivai kt isu ne SA tine zvatakabatsirana ute we are brothers and sistas but visit one of jorburg's hospitals,like Edenvalle hospital iriku jorburg South,ku out patients munenge muri 50 50 ,ku maternity munenge muri 50 50 ,saka hazvirevi chinhu,pane ma emegency wo anodawo kunorapwa ikoko ehe,
🐷 · 7 months ago
zvakaoma, wagara hanyari uyu, Hana tsitsi nesu anotoshaya kuti angatipedza cy, tose . nyangwe, vashandi vake havazvioni vanotofirira kuti vanodiwa,
. · 7 months ago
ZANU ndiyo ichatipedza
JAA · 7 months ago
Aron lost his bid to expel Zimbabwean nationals from rsa and lost his portfolio. now he's in the health ministry. he knows nothing apart from attacking Zimbabwean and gaining popularity amongst groups like dudula. instead of improving the ministry the guy is busy demonizing his neighbors just like the white racists. it's a shame for an African to behave like Pik Botha.
👀👀 · 7 months ago
but hez right,health sector yedu ngaigadzirisewo,and hatisi tese tine mikana yekunorapwa ikoko kwacho ,koo vari kuma remote areas kune chembere dzine sufar ne bp dziri kuita cy,ikoko kunenge kusina kana ma paracetamol chaiwo,havasi vese vane vana nezvizukuru zviri muHarare zvinozotumira mapills
King Nevin · 7 months ago
Endai kuSouth Africa mozo commenter. Takabveko kwakazara maZimba uko. Ngatigadzirise nyika yedu tisaswero tsvinyirwa. ZANU PF OUT ndiyo that's the only solution.
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Typical Zanu pf apologist, instead of attacking our minister did you take a second to analyse his statement? Everything he said is just spot on maybe it's time you guys start asking yourselves difficult questions about your country's health problems before attacking Aaron for calling a spade a spade.
Anonymous · 7 months ago
No I'm afraid you are missing the point . Motsoaledi is right . He is a minister if health he has to talk about this although it is sadly uncomfortable to you .but it is the plain truth
CIO · 7 months ago
i will come soon for my dental implant very soon
Si**** · 7 months ago
Uri **** rakadzidza.concept yaminister iri based pane zvipi
Erudite · 7 months ago
Toramba tichiyenda kuno rapwa ikoko kuSouth Africa kusvika madhongi ohokuma. This minister in the picture is too "small" to handle this matter. We helped them during the aparthied era where Zim single-handedly defeated the aparthied regime in South Africa. Botha, De Klerk and many others know this. In short, South Africa is our own territory- we own that country and therefore entitled to benefits associated with such ownership - healthcare included !!! Erudite out......
· 7 months ago
Says the Minister of Propaganda in ZANU.
🏋️🕺⛹️ · 7 months ago
the most valuable asset in any company, business or country is its Human Capital, sadly the government of this day chooses (sub) infrastructure dvpmnt, I like this Napoleon Hill phrase "more gold has been mined in the minds of men, than anywhere on earth", the health which cascade's to wealth of the people should come first in any 'sane' government's agenda, but alas this is Zim!
🏃 Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 7 months ago
zanupf inoda zvakanaka zvaisingagone kugadzisa learn from other countries and boost the health sector amudi busy kuba nekuondonga nyika katsi dzemusango dzakapanduka your behavior is inhuman sons of lucifer 🚮
Igweeee · 7 months ago
As Zimbabweans we are striving(suffering), many people are dying bcz of no medication in hospitals so SA's must understand that life is everything and noone wouldn't like to die but that why different tribes are flocking into SA land,people are looking for better life and for green pastures.So politically SA must not take advantage of using tribalism to abandon people seeking medical facilities.Its all caused by Political aspects and nothing more.SA lets us unite to make brotherly and sisterly friendship to love one another.Poverty hit Zimbabwe sinse 1980 up to date, only those who are on top are living good and cherished life and they are ignoring those who not have.So we are dying because we do not have.South Africans we are brothers and sisters why are hurting each other
Corruptmore Looto · 7 months ago
Ndezvako izvo. You are the ones who protect Zanu right, so we will keep coming over there to escape the mess here
Igweeee · 7 months ago
Yaaa politics is a dirty game,SA is our neighboring country but it seems that chiMinister icho chakuda kutonga to be an SA president however SA should know that we as Zimbabweans we do have no problems with them but only political grounds which are affecting the masses of Zimbabwe.In Zimbabwe we do not have government caring on the basis of health, employment education
S.A.S Zw · 7 months ago
handiti moti pamberi saka mukuchemei
Z · 7 months ago
ARON ATTACKS ZIMBOS AGAIN! THE GUY IS TOTALLY ANT ZIMBABWE. WHILE HIS POINT IS CORRECT, HIS DIPLOMACY NEEDS A SHAKE UP . ITS OUTRAGEOUS FOR A REVOLUTIONARY TO SPEAK LIKE AN OPPOSITION POLITICIAN. A GVT TO GVT DISCUSSION COULD YIELD BETTER RESULTS. FOR THE RECORD, ED DOESN'T THROW HIS COMPATRIOTS ACROSS THE LIMPOPO FOR TREATMENT, NO THESE GUYS CROSS THE BORDER ON THEIR OWN AND GET TREATED ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT ANY SUPPORTING ZIMBABWE GVT DOCUMENTS APART FROM THEIR PASSPORTS.
Anonymous · 7 months ago
He is right, we cannot be abusing the revolutionary status and keep burdening other governments as if we do not have ours. Why can we not fix our healthcare system and treat our own people like South Africa is doing? It's a matter of basic proper governance chete.
Chikahamadze Godfrey · 7 months ago
The government should contribute something towards the medical requirements of Zimbabweans living in South Africa. They should engage each other and pave the way forward. South Africa should approach the Zim government. Handifungi kuti vanomboramba
bhazuka · 7 months ago
Ndezvako izvo iwe,Tichatouya tose kuzorapiwa ikoko.Gomo ne Parirenyatwa haina mishonga.Saka unoda kuti tife hre?
· 7 months ago
Apa ndiwe unoti 2030!
ClD Admire kuyeri · 7 months ago
no medicine Zimbabwe clinic's.
Rudo💅 · 7 months ago
ko zvatiri nyika dzinodyidzana zvakanaka wani.Chaipa chii apa pakuzorapwa ikoko.Hanty imiwo mukuuyawo kuno muchibatsirikawo apa neapo.Pamberi nekudyidzana
Legend · 7 months ago
Ngawabhare Mari kwete kungoti todyidza Dai vati today south Africa iwo Hawana chaw anoda kuno
Corruptmore Looto · 7 months ago
Usanyepe iwe, South Africa inoda chii from us
Antman · 7 months ago
I remember during O level and A level days we used to donatw blood to this government organization that deals with donations. Its so sad if people now, prefare not to donate cause of certain reason. Some of our people die caise we can't afford private medication thst they will be seeking. I remember I was suppose to get someone operated amd get leg implants. Masvingo Orif doctor referred us to his surgery were he wanted 2.5K to do the operation, but with the capacity of hospital he claimed he cant help us he even refused to authorize transfer to any of our public hospitals that are capable to do the work like Mpilo, Paro or UBH. We ended up going to Mpilo without a transfer and we paid less than 1.5 fror everything, equipment, tests, bedding and anesthetics. Note that I had to ask for a family member who works there to help us otherwise we coild have been refered to private hospitals and risk someone becoming crippled over government incompetent doctors thst refer us to where they can milk us double.
...,. · 7 months ago
it is no longer business as usual, as they used to do when they were the ruling party. they now see that they have to do things right with no protection from the struggling party and the watch and criticism from the other gnu parties. things will work better for south africa and the whole of southern africa!
Zuze · 7 months ago
👌🏼
chitepo school of ideology · 7 months ago
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