He was reacting to the discovery of boxes of anti- retrovirals in the wreckage of a bus crash in Limpopo on Sunday. Motsoaledi says that the reason they are able to get away with the practice, is because systems at health facilities are not yet synchronised around the country.
“Quite a number of people, sometimes even South Africans, do that, moving from clinic to clinic, getting treatment, getting the same thing, because the system cannot catch them. Most people, let me be clear, most Zimbabweans do that because while they’re in South Africa to collect ARVs, they want to stockpile, to go home. In other words, instead of taking your share of one- month, you take a six- months share, so that you no longer have to come back so SA again, which is very wrong and stupid, and it causes problems in our public health services because then we run out of drugs, as if we ran out of stock,” he said.
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