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Report bad health workers

South African Press Association - December 9, 2007


Public health workers were mistreating their patients, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told a conference of the National Association of People Living with HIV and Aids (Napwa) in Soweto yesterday.

They were treating them with a blatant lack of ubuntu, she said, urging victims to report them. Mlambo-Ngcuka did not cite examples.

"When public servants are not doing their work it is your responsibility to report them.

"The ill-treatment of people discourages (them) to optimally use public facilities," she said.

Mlambo-Ngcuka chairs the South African National Aids Council (Sanac).

She also said stigma and victimisation were still behind the low number of people being tested for HIV.

"A lot of misinformation contributes to this negative trend. We can never do enough on educating people," she said.

"We all have homework to improve this issue to protect ourselves and our families," she said.


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