Health Minister Motsoaledi: " There is evidence in the S59 report of discrimination against black doctors by some top medical aid practitioners".

The Section 59 Investigation Panel into allegations of racial discrimination by medical schemes against black health care providers in South Africa says that the procedures implemented by the schemes violated the rights of procedural fairness of some individual practitioners. This was revealed by the panel during a media briefing in Pretoria this morning. The Panel was setup in 2019 following allegations by black healthcare providers that they were being discriminated against by medical schemes and administrators. Their claims were being withheld based on their race and ethnicity. For more on this matter we spoke to Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi ...