Tim De Maayer

paediatrician, gastroenterologist, father, husband, cyclist , Saffro-Belgian, activist & occasionally funny when allowed a word in edgewise. views my own

[Tim De Maayer @TimDeMaayer]

Episode 4 | Dr Lesego Ndhlovu - Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Co-Fou... https://t.co/OufQlZLxv4 via @YouTube

[SECTION27 @SECTION27news]

The Gauteng High Court, on Friday upheld the right of all pregnant and lactating women, and children under 6, irrespective of nationality and documentation status, to access #freehealthservices at all public health establishments, including hospitals.

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[Daily Maverick @dailymaverick]

The hospital is dedicated to the care of obstetric, gynaecological and paediatric patients but has recently been plagued with issues. To commemorate the milestone, Footprints 4 Sam, a charitable trust wants to raise funds to renovate the neonatal ... https://t.co/CB6A9HWOlQ

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@jac14 Please consider donating to Footprints for Sam’s 80 for 80 campaign https://t.co/Hsa5hlXZfU

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@Radio702 Yes! Thank you Melissa and Fred for making a difference for those who really matter: our little patients! https://t.co/ejcynwv4ve

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Where are our politicians, police, army? Yet again, the poor and vulnerable are suffering while those in power are washing their hands with expensive whiskey https://t.co/3xsI51i9VJ

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@drgail3 An island of excellence, sunk into the sea of sh!t. Well done HJH

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This! Children are being denied healthcare services despite being born in SA. These are not medical tourists! https://t.co/cYFSkG54Y0

[Daily Maverick @dailymaverick]

Our complicity for other people’s indignity lies in what we choose not to see, not to comment on, not to question about our abnormal environments. It’s in the way we’ve made peace with stark inequalities, adjusted to the abnormal. It’s in many of our ... https://t.co/X01t17EiVn

[Kwanele Asante, BA Liberal Arts, LLB, MSc Med @breastlessAfrik]

At last

Twitter South Africans has spent today speaking about access to public health care. Many are convinced that our illegal Zimbabweans are responsible for our “overburdened” health system. A narrative started by Former Health Minister Dr Motsoaledi.

[Mmusi Maimane MP @MmusiMaimane]

Every doctor takes this pledge.

[Daily Maverick @dailymaverick]

Specialist doctors at many state facilities aren’t showing up to work despite earning millions of rands a year in taxpayer money. The consequences for patient health can be devastating but not everyone agrees on the solutions. https://t.co/IPKfiO3GZl

[Tim De Maayer @TimDeMaayer]

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Well done for highlighting an elephant in the room, receiving a full-time salary from the public sector should equal 40 hours plus overtime per week spent in the public sector!

[SECTION27 @SECTION27news]

MEDIA STATEMENT: Maternal and Child Healthcare Case June 2022 - SECTION27 launches court application for access to #healthcare services for all pregnant women and young children at public hospitals.

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Dear Minister Phaahla, the ‘medical tourist mom’ is... https://t.co/hmoU8hsivB

[Spotlight @SpotlightNSP]

JUST IN: Gauteng health in flames – making it through the fires and fumbles of SA’s richest province.@SECTION27news @WitsHealthFac @ShabirMadh @FrancoisVenter3 @SHA_ZAR @TimDeMaayer @GautengHealth @HealthZA @David_Makhura @HelenJosephHos @umunyana_rugege
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https://t.co/52aG7SZtyU thank you prof Saloojee, here’s the simple truth

[SECTION27 @SECTION27news]

@SJDStevenson begins: "the delinquent provincial government was the government that houses the City of Gold, national government and the Constitutional Court... And yet we have seen, for years, how disaster seems to court @GautengHealth." #GautengHealth @WitsHealthFac

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@SpotlightNSP @GautengHealth @RahimaHospital @SECTION27news @DrMokgethi @PublicHealthSA @ShabirMadh @FrancoisVenter3 @SHA_ZAR @JackBloomDA @SAMedicalAssoc Yet another slap in the face of patients in the public sector. Please people, stop making a noise while you are dying, we’re trying to look good here!

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@ShabirMadh This letter is not a political statement, nor condemnation of the NHI. Instead it is a plea; this hospital, with its current staff, but without its infrastructural and supply issues, could be the envy of private hospitals. Our children deserve it