Dr Kenneth Leonard Jacobs

Committee appearances

• Update on healthcare services in relation to Covid-19: KZN & Limpopo Provincial Departments of Health briefings 14 Jan 2021

  Dr K Jacobs (ANC) said that the country needed to be sure of where it was heading with the second wave. Everyone needed to be wary of a third and fourth wave. What was the country’s preparedness for anything that would be coming in the future? What the country was ...

• Update on healthcare services in relation to Covid-19: Eastern & Western Cape Provincial Departments of Health briefings 13 Jan 2021

  Dr K Jacobs (ANC) stated that he had questions on beds, staffing, testing, oxygen, EMS, deep rural areas, private practice, medical and nursing students. He noted that three districts had reached maximum bed capacity. Was there a need for new field hospitals or could the Department change wards into Covid-19 ...

• Minister on rollout strategy of Covid-19 Vaccine & status of healthcare services in provinces in relation to COVID 7 Jan 2021

  After extending his condolences for the passing of Dr Dyantyi, Dr K Jacobs (ANC) acknowledged the Speaker’s letter to the Chairperson as well as its contents. He also conveyed his appreciation of the Chairperson’s answer to the letter, particularly about the creation of an ad hoc committee. He said it ...

• National and Provincial Departments of Health & entities Audit Outcomes: AGSA briefing 11 Nov 2020

  Dr K Jacobs (ANC) referred to slide 13, and asked about the status of internal control. Internal control is something the AGSA has control over and can do something about. The Department and its entities seem to be doing very well in effective leadership, but he wondered if it was ...

• NHI Bill submissions: Update on procurement of external service provider to process comments; Provincial NHI Public Hearings Report 4 Nov 2020

  Dr K Jacobs (ANC) welcomed the partnerships between the pharmaceutical and health product companies that will manufacture the vaccine against Covid-19. He agreed with Dr Dyanti that a single response means the office cannot proceed. Dr Jacobs also asked that the Committee rescind the decision to decide outcomes of public ...

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Plenary appearances

• GOVERNANCE - CLUSTER 3 27 May 2020

  Thank you, Madam Speaker. Thank you, Minister. There are many institutions which develop models about epidemics in South Africa. South Africans can get a better understanding of the epidemic's trajectory through those models. The models also assist government to be able to prepare interventions to reduce the number of infections. ...

• DEBATE ON TUBERCULOSIS (TB): UNITED IN THE FIGHT TO END TB - A CHALLENGE TO ALL SOUTH AFRICANS 13 Mar 2020

  Hon Chairperson, we have heard here today that Tuberculosis, TB, is a leading reported cause of death which is 88.4% of all deaths in South Africa and the leading cause of death by a single infectious agent globally.

  The ANC led government has been at the forefront of working towards ...

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