The Cancer Association of South Africa expresses frustration over shortage of chemotherapy drugs

SAfm — The Cancer Association of South Africa ,CANSA, has expressed frustration over the continued shortage of life-saving drugs at public hospitals. The association says it keeps receiving complaints from patients who have not been receiving their chronic medicines, despite repeatedly raising the matter with hospital managers and health officials. This week, a Gauteng breast cancer patient described to SABC News how she collapsed at home, two days after the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, failed to provide her with chemotherapy medication. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has confirmed the shortage of certain life-saving drugs countrywide. Wisani Makhubele reports