Manto's Private Stay In Public Hospital
Minister of Health Manto Tshabala was checked into hospital over the weekend after coming down with a lung infection. In order to show solidarity with her fellow citizens she chose to be checked into Johannesburg Public Hospital.
Well kind of. You see Manto checked into the private wards of the Johannesburg hospital. The private wards are a way for those who can pay for it to get private level health care at public hospitals. Except as DA health spokeman Jack Bloom explains:
They are so badly managed, in fact, that they lose about R1-million a year. This is a unique case of the poor subsidising the better-off.