DA KZN supports Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill
“The government is accountable to the people. Its purpose is to enable the South African people to use their freedoms. It has no power except that which is assigned to it by the people and the Constitution. The government must reflect the will of the people and our elected representatives must be directly accountable to the people. Those to whom we entrust our nation’s highest offices have a sacred duty to live up to that trust; Government must always act honestly, transparently and in the best interests of all South Africans.”
So says the DA’s values charter.
On July 30th, in this House, Health MEC Dhlomo told us during an executive statement that Section 21 would be used to address the shortage of several critical medicines in KZN. This option is retained in the bill before us, from previous legislation.
Two months later and we have no update, nor has the problem of shortages been fixed.