Madam Deputy Speaker, yes, I will be one minute. Unfortunately I didn't hear the member who was talking. I would have liked to have heard what she was saying. We support this Budget Vote specifically because it addresses primary health care. I heard some talk about doctors leaving the country. I want to say to the member that what she didn't say was that South Africa produces the very best doctors, hence they are leaving. That's actually a good thing. Also, if we improve primary health care, it will reduce the workload in hospitals and we might not need the numbers she is talking about. That is very important.
Coming to security in relation to what happened in Mpumalanga, I think there is no way that you can have security between a doctor and a patient, because there are confidential things that they need to talk about. If you talk about security, let us talk about it in terms of it being around the hospital - and that was there at that institution where the doctor was stabbed. When the patient is inside with the doctor, there is no way that there can be somebody who stands and listens to what is going on there.
Vote agreed to.
Vote No 17 - Higher Education and Training - put.
Declarations of vote: