Hundreds March to Gugulethu Clinic Demanding Better Service GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica
Led by the Movement for Change and Social Justice, hundreds of people marched to the Gugulethu Community Health Centre in Cape Town on Wednesday.Marchers complained about long waiting periods, poor service, and a lack of security.Hundreds of people marched to the Gugulethu Community Health Centre in Cape Town on Wednesday to complain about service at the clinic.
Marchers came from civic organistions including #UniteBehind and the People's Health Movement, from Gugulethu, Nyanga and Khayelitsha. Speaking to the protesters in the street outside the clinic, march leader Reverend Zama Mfihlo said:"We cannot keep ignoring what is happening here."He said patients complained they were not well treated by staff at the clinic."We do not have medical aids, we know, but at least treat us with care. There are suggestion boxes in this clinic, but the question is, who reads what we put inside those boxes? Because nothing is changing," said Mfihlo.
Noluthando Mazwi, a member of the Gugulethu Health Forum who gets her chronic medication from the clinic, said her main issues were long waiting times, poor service and leaks in the ceiling when it rains.
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