Speaking at the funeral of Dr Clarence Mini in Fourways on Sunday, Mkhize told mourners that President Ramaphosa had been leading from the front during the crisis and was always ready to listen.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has lauded President Cyril Ramaphosa as a consultative leader in the country’s ongoing battle against the Covid-19 pandemic.
“He wants to know the scientific basis of this issue. There are people concerned about whether there is science behind the decisions we are taking – there can only be one thing. There can only be science about it because we work with a whole group of medical experts who have various views, but at the end of the day we remain confident that the approaches we have taken are the best,” Mkhize said.
New24 reported on Saturday that Dr Glenda Gray, the head of the South African Medical Research Council and chairperson of the MAC subcommittee on research, had criticised the phased lifting of the lockdown as “unscientific”. Mini, who was affectionately nicknamed Bizzah, was the chairperson of the Council of Medical Schemes . He died in Johannesburg last week after being hospitalised for more than a month with Covid-19-related complications.“Bizzah’s message is that we need to take this seriously. We need to accept that anyone of us can get it and will get it; we need to accept it and that the whole world is going through a difficult challenge,” Mkhize told mourners.
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