Hon Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move on behalf of the DA:
That the Council -
1) notes that in the Cacadu District Municipality there are 17 mobile clinics that cannot operate because their licences have not been renewed;
(2) further notes that the spokesperson for the Eastern Cape department of Health is not contactable and that officials refer concerned parties and politicians to the department of public transport, whom they infer to be responsible;
(3) that this current state of affairs cannot continue, or South Africa risks becoming a criminal state; and
(4) calls on the House to:
a) address the situation of the licences of mobile clinics in the Cacadu District and in the rest of the Eastern Cape;
b) demand that MECs of health and public transport in the Eastern Cape immediately resolve the licence issue, pay the fees and put the mobile clinics back on the road;
c) have the MEC for health submit a full report by the end of October 2012 on the reasons why licences were not renewed, what the ultimate costs were pertaining to this issue, who was responsible and how many patients suffered; and
d) debate the state of health in the province since the Department of Health took over the function from the district municipalities.