Hon Chair, statistically over 40% of the primary health care facilities that we have were built during this time of the democratic era. So, there has been a great effort to improve services and situate them closer to where people live.
Secondly, the introduction of clinic committees has also helped, where the public and the communities participate in ensuring that they oversee and support the health management, and in ensuring that the quality of the services is responsive to their needs.
The other important intervention is the programme of the re-engineering of the primary health care system. In many instances, patients walk past primary health care services because there is no doctor. I think we have a doctor-based system and there isn't adequate appreciation for the fact that our nurses are highly trained. You can actually appreciate that by the rigour with which other developed countries poach our nurses.
I agree with you that education, mobilisation and active participation of communities will ensure that we achieve the objective of ensuring that primary health care services are more accessible and of good quality. Thank you.
Failure to submit report on maladministration at Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein
236. Dr J C Kloppers-Lourens (DA) asked the Minister of Higher Education and Training:
(1) With reference to his reply to question 2612 on 30 September 2011, what are the reasons furnished by the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein (CUT) for KPMG's delay and eventual failure to submit the report on their investigation into maladministration at the institution;
(2) whether he verified these reasons with KPMG; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) whether he has been informed that on the same day of 2 September 2011 that KPMG indicated that the report was ready, the council refused to take delivery of the report, terminated KPMG's services and instructed that the report be handed over to a certain person (name furnished) whose instructions were to review the scope of the work done by KPMG and to finalise the investigation of which a report had already been completed by KMPG; if not, what is the position in each case; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?