Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba has denied being xenophobic and insists that her comments were taken out of context. “On a daily ba...
Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba has denied being xenophobic and insists that her comments were taken out of context.
“On a daily basis, we have an influx of foreign nationals
choking the health system in Limpopo. The situation is getting worse. As a
province, we have a backlog of surgical operations, so I started a programme
called Rural Health Matter, to reduce the backlog. It's not xenophobic.”
She told the Times the patient in the video was not there on
an emergency basis.
“If she came here for an emergency or she was pregnant you
would be justified in criticising me, but this patient got an accident in
Harare. She told me a family friend told her to come to Limpopo, she would get
help.”
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