Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes recent reports of a Pretoria police officer who was shot twice in the stomach during a house robbery on Friday 19 February 2010 and turned away by a city hospital because a surgeon on standby did not want to come in;
2) takes this opportunity to condemn in the strongest possible terms such irresponsible and negligent actions by the surgeon and calls on the Department of Health to immediately institute an inquiry into the conduct of the surgeon and the staff on duty for failing to inform the paramedics until they arrived at the hospital; and
3) ensures that such behaviour is prevented in our hospitals.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.