The first issue, Madam Speaker, relates to the challenges of resources in various provinces with regional inequities. Those are realities that we accept and concede to. We will seek to support any part of the country where there is a district where we can see that it needs additional assistance. We are in daily contact with all the provinces, the MECs and the heads of departments to make sure that when we pick up any shortages in our own system, we intervene to get them to be assisted.
A few weeks back I landed in the Eastern Cape and realised some of the challenges with the protective personal protective equipment, PPEs. I actually stepped out to get an immediate reinforcement of additional PPEs to support the MEC whilst she had indicated their constraints in the matter. We were also able to deal with the challenges that she had faced in the employment of some professionals and all of those were solved. So, what the hon member is talking about are issues that we acknowledge that they exist and when they get pointed out we really do everything to try to resolve them. The other issue relates to challenges in quarantine. Here again we have worked closely with the province to make sure they provide the adequate number of beds to quarantine a number of people who need to be quarantined.
And in that regard we do also realise a number of people who have a lot of anxiety that would not want to subject themselves to quarantine really out of anxiety and fear. I have got stories of people who had gotten into taxis, drove away to the nearest town because they did not want to be quarantined. This is a matter of information that we need to share so that people do not fear quarantine as such.
IsiZulu:
Bese le enye-ke ayichazayo eyomhlonyane. Hhayi, ifuna ukuxoxwa nje kahle ngesintu indaba yomhlonyane ukuthi umhlonyane yikhambi elidala elikade silisebenzisa, sakhula ngalo kwathina. Ngikhula mina angizange ngiye esibhedlela. Ngangilashwa ngoMhlonyane ... [Ubuwelewele.] ... uma kukhona uma kukhona umkhuhlane. Ngakhoke akekho ozosiphikisa ukuthi umhlonyane ukhona usizo onawo uma uphethwe umkhuhlane kodwa ukuthi umhlonyane uyaliqeda na leli gciwane le-Covid-19, i- coronavirus, cha asinabo lobo bufakazi kodwa ngeke simuphikise umuntu ozozisebenzisela umhlonyane, ngeke simuphikise umuntu ozothatha elinye ikhambi noma unsukumbili noma umunyane noma eliphi ikhambi. Uma ufisa ukulisebenzisa ulazi ukuthi liyasebenza asizukuphikisa.
Into nje engayisho ukuthi abantu abaningi abatholakala benalo igciwane le- coronavirus le baye bangabi nazo izimpawu zokugula bazithole ukuthi bayaziphilela nje bawumqemane. Noma omunye abenazo izimpawu zingabi ezisinda kakhulu kube yizimpawu nje ezilula. Mhlawumbe-ke usungathola omunye othi noma ngabe ubengezokugula abe esencoma ikhambi lakhe abekade elidla ngoba ulidlile kodwa thina siyazi ukuthi baningi abantu abasindayo bengazange balale esibhedlela, bengazange babe nezimpawu, bengakaze bagule, noma begulile babe nezimpawu ezincane basinde.
Ngaleyondlela-ke asifuni ukuba siqophisane ngokuthi umhlonyane uyasebenza noma awusebenzi kodwa-ke sikulindele ukuthi uma kukhona ofisa ukuba sikulekelele siwucwaninge umhlonyane sizokwenza lokho. Sakhuluma nabase- Madagascar sathi nathi izandla zivuliwe uma befisa ukuthi sibalekelele ukuphenya ukuthi umhlonyane uyasebenza siyokwenza lokho. Ngakhoke, ophuza umhlonyane angawuphuza kodwa asingabi ubufakazi obuqondene ngqo. Siyavuma nje ukuthi kukhona la usebenza khona umhlonyane kodwa akuyona into esingangena kuyo ngempikiswano ezinhlelweni zezindaba ukuthi umhlonyana ufanele noma awufanele yini. Ngiyabonga.