Hon Deputy Chairperson, the EFF notes with great concern the continuous deterioration of the healthcare system in the country which the department is also forever changing the HODs in the hospitals but there is no improvement. The department does not even have a plan to employ more nurses; train doctors and other allied health workers. We have seen in the majority of the hospitals where even when the budget is allocated it is more focussing on paying accrual than the actual delivering of services. We have been throughout the country where the department does not even have