The state of the national hospital in Bloemfontein is shocking and embarrassing. The Minister of Health, member of the executive council, MEC, and the officials in the department must just bury their heads in shame, because the patients in these hospitals are drinking contaminated water. They are bathing in cold water. The nurses wash their hands in dirty water. The nurses have to come with their own water from their own homes for them to drink in the work place. The very same nurses are expected to work in a clean and conducive environment, when the same water that is meant to clean the place is already dirty.
One of the many reasons why we have a completely collapsed health system is because we have failed to prioritise prevention and primary health care. Workers in the very same hospital have already reported this matter to the management. They have already reported this issue to the department, and yet there has been no intervention. In fact, the fact that the Minister of Health has not intervened to date even fact proved that our suspicion and our view that there is a group of people who deliberately demand and wait for our hospitals to fail for them
to come and bring here misguided ideas on the National Health Insurance, NHI. There are people who depend on our people dying in public hospitals for them to make profit and money. In fact, we must just so maar [as well] resolved the fact that the ruling party must just say that there is a ministry of corruption, so that you guys can just stop compromising our people and having to make money from the death of our people just so that you guys can make profit. Thank you. [Time expired.] [Applause.]