Are you kidney me? Gauteng health’s xenophobic ‘mistake’ re-emerges

A Gauteng health circular that called for the province’s state hospitals to charge foreign patients for services was hastily withdrawn following the national department’s claims that it was a junior official’s mistake.

But now that same circular has resurfaced as part of the provincial department’s legal arguments in denying an asylum seeker kidney treatment she needs to stay alive.

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