#KZNOncologyCrisis: Health MEC resorts to fake news to bolster his own image
9 April 2018
The DA will today write to KZN Premier, Willies Mchunu, after his Health MEC, Sibongiseni Dhlomo, last week resorted to spreading fake news regarding the arrival of a new radiotherapy machine at Addington Hospital - announcing that the equipment was currently being installed – while it was still on board a ship miles out to sea.
The information has been confirmed by a high-ranking source within KZN’s Department of Health, who also advised that the ship was only due to dock in Durban yesterday.
The DA condemns the peddling of such fictitious information in the strongest possible terms. KZN’s ongoing oncology crisis is still costing lives every day with no end in sight and given the seriousness of the situation there can be no place for false information such as that being peddled by the MEC.
It is both deeply disappointing and insensitive that he should falsely raise the hopes and expectations of KZN’s cancer sufferers – purely in an attempt to bolster his own image as the so-called saviour of cancer patients. This must surely be the lowest possible level that he can stoop to.