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A doctor doing rounds in a hospital
ActionSA has criticised the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) for supporting undocumented migrants’ right to public healthcare.
This is after the SAHRC raised concerns over recent incidents where undocumented foreign nationals were denied access to healthcare facilities.
The Commission says denying undocumented immigrants access to healthcare is not only unethical and unlawful, but also inconsistent with the country’s obligations under both domestic and international human rights law.
“The South African Human Rights Commission, and their NGO friends and cheerleaders, honestly have turned their mandates into weapons, to shame ordinary South African, into being docile bystanders. Our country is collapsing around us, and they don’t protect rights anymore, they protect the comfortable, and we believe moral high ground of the political elite. If they had any backbone about what they’re saying, they should stop attacking South Africans, who are struggling under these circumstances. Borders must be fixed, we must restore the rule of law in this country, we must clean up Home Affairs, and we must stop turning our hospitals into shelters, for everyone else- except the people who actually pay for them, ” says ActionSA Parliamentary Chief Whip, Lerato Ngobeni.
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