South Africa’s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has come for African leaders who seekmedical treatment abroad.
Speaking in Zimbabwe at a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting of African health ministers, Mr Motsoaledi said Africa must be the only continent where the leaders travel abroad for health reasons.
He was addressing the conference hours after President Robert Mugabe, who himself makes regular trips to Singapore for eye treatment, opened the meeting.
Mr Mugabe had left the event by the time Mr Motsoaledi spoke.
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He was quoted South Africa’s health minister as saying:
I have said this before and I will say it again: we are the only continent that has its leaders seeking medical services outside the continent, outside our territory. We must be ashamed of that. This is called health tourism. We must promote our own.”
Health campaigners have regularly criticised these foreign trips arguing that they undermine the health service at home.
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