# Manto Tshabala-Msimang is a hypocrite
The Star and even the BBC are running a story about South African paramedics who left a vagrant to die because he "was too dirty and stank."
Yes, it's horrible and wrong that they'd leave someone to die. Discipline them, fire them if needs be. Press charges if it's against the law. Whatever. By all means.
What I do think is utterly hypocritical is the Health Department's outrage because of it. One man dies in the street because of negligent and uncaring paramedics and everyone including the Minister of Health is up in arms. Thousands die daily and will continue to die because of Manto's near-genocidal AIDS policies, and nobody seems to get uppity about her deriliction of duty.
What about the countless tragedies that unfold when the paramedics don't even arrive, because they're too overstretched or underresourced?
Not to mention that these sorts of things are hardly unexpected given how overworked, demotivated, and underpaid our country's health workers are.
Gimme a break.
Yes, it's horrible and wrong that they'd leave someone to die. Discipline them, fire them if needs be. Press charges if it's against the law. Whatever. By all means.
What I do think is utterly hypocritical is the Health Department's outrage because of it. One man dies in the street because of negligent and uncaring paramedics and everyone including the Minister of Health is up in arms. Thousands die daily and will continue to die because of Manto's near-genocidal AIDS policies, and nobody seems to get uppity about her deriliction of duty.
What about the countless tragedies that unfold when the paramedics don't even arrive, because they're too overstretched or underresourced?
Not to mention that these sorts of things are hardly unexpected given how overworked, demotivated, and underpaid our country's health workers are.
Gimme a break.
File under: politiek : {2004.09.24 17:47}
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