Send all medical bills for Zimbabweans to Mnangagwa: SA MEC Ramathuba
Limpopo MEC Phophi Ramathuba
Buoyed by the tacit support she got from President Cyril Ramaphosa, Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba is stepping up her campaign against Zimbabweans accessing medication in Limpopo.
Ramathuba was at it again at an unidentified hospital where she interrogated Zimbabwe patients. And another video of such interrogations has gone viral again on social media.
This time, she told a Zimbabwe patient that her department will send a bill to President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa who she described as “out of order.”
She opined Mnangagwa was not shouldering responsibility of his people’s health needs, suggesting to the patient, “next time l am billing Mnangagwa for your ambulance.”
“For you, l must bill Mnangagwa because l am transporting you every time to come here. What is Mnangagwa doing? He is doing nothing, while Phophi Ramathuba is doing his job.
“Mnangangwa is out of order. He must do his work. I am going to bill him. Let us cost all the province, especially with our rural health matters. We send the bill and all the deliveries in our hospitals and all those who have left.
“We must send to their government and l will even issue a press statement that Limpopo government has sent a bill of so many millions for Zimbabwe nationals, who cross the bridge to come and deliver,” she said, amid laughter from onlookers.
Ramathuba attracted stinging headlines last week after yelling at a Zimbabwe patient in a hospital bed in Bela Bela for overburdening her department.
Various organisations including DA and EFF called for her axing, meanwhile Zimbabwe Exile Forum condemned the rants as ‘uncalled for and misdirected.’
The Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria launched a formal complaint with the South Africa government over Ramathula’s undiplomatic utterances.
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