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Eastern Cape health horror

By Najma Desai & Melissa Mayer

The Daily Sun this week featured the new MEC for health in the Eastern Cape’s crusade to restore and improve the province’s health services.

The Daily Sun reports that in a daring undercover operation, the MEC, Sicelo Gqobana, bought government-issue painkillers from a public health worker’s home for R 30. It is medication that ought to be supplied to patients at no cost. “They said they could sell me any medication or drugs I want”, he recounts.

This is not the first “can of worms” Gqobana has cracked open. Since his appointment last November, the article reports that the MEC for health has been exposing malpractice and weeding out unethical conduct.

Continue reading | 25 November 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: daily sun, healthcare, sicelo gqobana