I would rather die than go to a public hospital: iLIVE

So the Minister says that we have a brutal private healthcare system. Well, if he describes the private healthcare system as brutal, one would like to hear his opinion of his departments public health care.

What is even more interesting is that he states that the private sector healthcare system has an income of more than R86 million. He will probably state that the public healthcare system is underfunded, and being able to lay his hands on some of that money would suit him quite well.

Now the taxpayers have to fund the NHI. Just like the taxpayers have to fund Sanral, the Road Accident Fund, Transnet, Escom and corruption that is rife among politicians, public servants, even in the Ministers own department. The more Government Ministers and politicians want to maintain their lavish lifestyle, the more the taxpayers have to cough up.

If, as a pensioner, I will no longer afford to be able to go to a private hospital, I would rather die in my own bed than in one of the Minister of Health’s unhygienic, dirty hospitals where you are lucky if you can get a glass of water from the nursing staff.

A friend of mine died in the Johannesburg General Hospital, or whatever it is called today, last year as a result of leukemia. The treatment she received was a disgrace and in the end she was better off dying than having to stay there under those circumstances.

My wife was also treated there in the Oncology Department until I decided that we had had enough of the unhygienic and filthy manner in which she was treated, as well as the insults she had to bear from the medical staff.

If I was the Minister I would clean before my own door before I try and clean before the doors of others.

Funny that the country’s top politicians and Government officials prefer to be treated in a private clinic a-la-Malema, rather than the Ministers public medical facilities. Does he go there?