The expenditure of the Department of Health does not translate into better services on the ground. It means that the money we spent does not change the lives of the people that need the health services. The idea that the NHI will be the silver bullet for our challenges ignores the capacity of the incapable state.

We have a leadership and governance deficit that the NHI simply will not rectify. It is time for this government to acknowledge that it cannot provide the essential services that our people need. It cannot. It is incapable to do that. I thank you.

Mr A MSHAIK EMAM: Hon House Chair, the NFP will support the report tabled here today. We have taken note of the Financial and Fiscal Commission and particularly, the Auditor-General of South Africa's findings, and particularly on the national Department of Health and the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, Sahpra. The NFP has repeatedly called for a preventative health care system in this country and now we can see that it is more needed than before, because we have people who have a hearing and a sight problem in this very House. Given the fact that so many ambulances and hospitals were burnt in Gaza and they could not see that. So, perhaps they need more attention than others. Having said that, our concern is that there is going to be a budget cut and having a budget cut means that it is going impact the health sector. Our serious concern is that................................... And this is the question I want to ask: Why do we need to wait for somebody to die, before we act. We have repeatedly raised the concern of food products manufactured in South African and there are no oversight mechanisms to the extent that our people are dying at a very young age, firstly. That is why the previous Minister of Health emphasised on a preventative health system that we have in Cuba. I think it is time that we looked at that very seriously, so that our people don't have to get sick and die.

I think that is very important and my concern is on the implementation of the NHI with such a large budget cut. Is it going to able to be implantable timeously and be effective? So, as the NHI, we also want to call on government at some stage to consider moving away from the World Health Organisation and we need to create a new World Health Organisation, if you look at the reports of the effects of the vaccines that we have taken and the number of people that are dying from cardiac arrest and strokes. I agree with President Putin that we need a new World Health organisation, a new ... [Time expired.]

Mr MGEHENDRICKS: Hon House Chair, the DA wants fiscal disability. That's a new word for this Parliament. So, that means you die if you are poor and you live if you have money.

#### Afrikaans :

Die apartheid salf waarvan die VF Plus praat ...

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... also means that blacks should not live, so there's fewer people that will vote for the parties of the liberation movement. A vote for the DA is a vote for blacks to die because they cannot afford medical costs and shouldn't get medical treatment.

Every year that universal health is delayed, it puts us 10 years back. Apartheid has put us back for more than a century. So, a solution as proposed by Parliament, the people's Parliament, is the way forward. National Health Insurance, NHI , is the answer. Bite the bullet to save lives. Thank you very much, hon House Chair.

#### IsiXhosa :

Nksz A GELA: Ndikuhloniphile Mbhexeshi oyiNtloko kodwa abanye bethu bafika apha bakhamise batyhale kodwa kwikomiti yeMicimbi yeSebe bayathula bangakwazi nokuthetha.