DA to make full use of KZN Health functionality inspections after numerous oversight bans
15 October 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will this week embark on health institution oversight inspections as part of the provincial Legislature’s Health Functionality visits.
The programme, which begins today and ends on Thursday will see Members visit various facilities across the province including hospitals, clinics, pathology services and, for the first time, government-run mortuaries.
The DA intends making full use of this opportunity after numerous occasions where we have been denied access, by KZN’s Health MECs, to perform our constitutionally mandated oversight role. This despite frequent complaints from patients who attend these public health facilities.
This week, DA MPLs will follow up on these complaints with the main focus on: