Speaker, through you to the Minister, the infrastructure is going to play a very important role as far as the roll-out of the National Health Insurance is concerned. The Auditor-General's report, together with the research that has been released by the Health Systems Trust on the infrastructure depicted the provinces as faring very badly as far as the expenditure is concerned, and found that in the four district municipalities of Motheo in the Free State, Sedibeng in Gauteng, Zululand in KwaZulu-Natal and Pixley ka Seme in Northern Cape interventions were necessary.
In Motheo in the Free State alone, 77% failed in terms of cleanliness, 64% failed on availability of medicine supplies and 60% failed on improved patient safety. In Sedibeng in Gauteng, 79% failed in terms of cleanliness, 58% failed in terms of the medicine supply, etc.
The issue here is that if the people employed in these institutions are unable to do the basic things which they are employed for, how can we expect them to implement the infrastructure, especially because we all know that Public Works is a mess?