The IFP in KwaZulu-Natal is worried about the increase in the number of bogus
doctors operating without licenses after six male and one female foetuses were
discovered in glass bottles filled with a brown fluid in an illegal dump site
overrun with filth and rodents in Marianhill, west of Durban.

"We urge the MEC of Health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo to declare war on back-street
abortions by launching a campaign to eradicate illegal posters advertising
abortions in all major cities and towns around the province. Bogus doctors use
concoctions and pills which could result in illegal and unhygienic abortions
that could have adverse effects on women leading to infections and the risk of
not being able to conceive again," said IFP Spokesperson on Health, Mrs
Ncamisile Nkwanyana, MPL.

""These so called doctors are still allowed to continue to display their
advertisements around the streets, making promises, as we all know, ranging from
penis enlargement, abortion, to 'keeping your partner for life. These people
operate under the most dismal and unhygienic circumstances imaginable. They also
pose as traditional healers and medical personnel. We call on Dr Dhlomo to
appoint a task team to work with SAPS to provide powerful teeth to a special
drive against the bogus doctors who play with the lives of gullible people.
These days adverts are pasted in public places and in newspapers containing
deceitful advertisements that mislead people on treating and curing various
diseases. This task team must monitor and scrutinize such advertisements and
advertisers who are not legitimate must be arrested for misleading advertising.
Legal advice must be solicited for cracking down on wrongful advertisers. We
need to bring on board the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa who
must act as the watchdog in the public interest," continued Mrs Nkwanyana

"The IFP is now calling on the Department of Health to improve its clinic
facilities primarily to provide the public with contraceptives to avoid unwanted
pregnancies. Public hospitals must also improve termination of pregnancy
services which are supposedly freely available to all the citizens. This will
assist our desperate women who become victims of these criminals and end up
losing their lives." concluded Mrs Nkwanyana.

The IFP would like to advise the public that they must check the qualifications
and HPCSA registration of any practitioner that they may have doubts about.

 

Issued by IFP