{"id":412980,"date":"2017-08-30T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T08:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/30\/south-african-minister-blasts-african-leaders-health-tourism\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T08:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T08:49:43","slug":"south-african-minister-blasts-african-leaders-health-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/30\/south-african-minister-blasts-african-leaders-health-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"South African minister blasts African leaders\u2019 \u2018health tourism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A South African minister has criticised African leaders who seek medical treatment abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Motsoaledi condemned \u201chealth tourism\u201d while speaking in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>President Robert Mugabe, who frequently receives treatment in Singapore, had left the meeting of health ministers when Dr Motsoaledi made the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mugabe\u2019s spokesman has said that the president\u2019s doctor \u201cis not only Zimbabwean, he is actually black\u2026 He is very, very, very black\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>George Charamba made those comments to Zimbabwe\u2019s state-run Herald newspaper in May, insisting that President Mugabe was not turning his back on Zimbabwean medical help.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Muhammadu Buhari and Angola\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos have also been criticised for seeking medical treatment abroad this year.<\/p>\n<p>At this week\u2019s conference Dr Motsoaledi said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the only continent that has its leaders seeking medical services outside the continent, outside our territory. We must be ashamed of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is called health tourism. We must promote our own,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Motsoaledi also urged governments to increase funding to local facilities.<\/p>\n<p>He has been praised by South Africans for using public hospitals instead of private facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African minister has criticised African leaders who seek medical treatment abroad. Aaron Motsoaledi condemned \u201chealth tourism\u201d while speaking in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe, who frequently receives treatment in Singapore, had left the meeting of health ministers when Dr Motsoaledi made the comments. Mr Mugabe\u2019s spokesman has said that the president\u2019s doctor \u201cis not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":412981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South African minister blasts African leaders\u2019 \u2018health tourism\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/30\/south-african-minister-blasts-african-leaders-health-tourism\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"South African minister blasts African leaders\u2019 \u2018health tourism\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A South African minister has criticised African leaders who seek medical treatment abroad. 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