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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Limpopo Province has called for the immediate removal of Dr Phophi Ramathuba as the Limpopo Health MEC after her Xenophobic undertones to a Zimbabwean patient.
In a statement EFF condemns the behaviour and utterance of the Limpopo Health MEC at Bela-Bela Hospital.
“Her entire ill-informed and inhumane performance and address to sick patient awaiting surgery is inconsistent with all universal standards of patients confidentiality and dignity.
“The MEC’s open rejection o patients awaiting surgery on the basis that they are African from other African countries is only informed by nothing else, but Afrophobia, a hatred of other African people.
“Why even address people in their dying bed about budgets and political limitations of healthcare?. Why reject their applications for surgical operations by addressing them as a group in front of cameras and others.
EFF further said, “The MEC has undoubtedly launched a scathing attack on foreign nationals and could be heard on the video clip asking the patient about her language and why does the poor patient find herself in Bela-Bela/ Lephalale as a non-South African, while she was supposed to be receiving treatment within the borders of Zimbabwe under. The leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
They also added that they are calling for Ramathuba’s medical license to be revoked.
“Africa belongs to Africans and there is no room for Xenophobia in South Africa, therefore the EFF will report Ramathuba to the South African Human Rights Commission for what is an outright Human Rights Violation of patients.
“Furthermore, we call for the revocation of her license as a professional doctor for undermining the code of ethics for medical doctors and trying to enforce a dompas system in Limpopo hospitals.
“We call on her immediate removal as MEC. Our country cannot be led, at any level, by anyone who will not respect the dignity of African people. The MEC is a direct danger to our humanity as a people and the basic requirements of a conduct health professional. People go to hospitals to find life, not humiliation and death,” said EFF Limpopo Province.
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