Health Department Victimize Patients.

Where do I start!? I became disabled almost a decade ago & that is how long I have been tortured by and struggling with the governments poor, undignified & unhelpful - and absolutely rude & mean - "services", since I am unable to work anymore - and so do MANY other poor, vulnerable & helpless people - even though we STILL pay our taxes all the time.

I am in constant pain, chronically weak & semi-bedridden, but are forced by their clinics, hospitals & pharmacies to travel to them up to 4 times a month, walk long distances and wait - often standing up - in unbearable discomfort & on the edge of collapsing, to see doctors or get a repeat chronic prescription, and then only get half of it and having to travel far again, do it ALL OVER again, to get SOME of the rest, because the pharmacy is to *********** & lazy to send it all to the clinic. Meanwhile their personnel ignore the condition I am in by being hostile and simply disregarding me, when they have posters clearly stating that people like me are given priority. I have often encountered ****** as well when they help far healthier people, which came after me, long before they help me.

I have been to see so called "authorities" & complained to various others at Universitas & National hospitals in Bloemfontein and the Health department nationally & in Bloemfontein, but are being verbally abused, disregarded and even targeted, because I dared to complain about their unprofessional, disregarding & cruel treatment & attitudes. I am highly trained & educated, but am in fact treated as a ***** and undesirable while I could still be very useful & contribute to society even with my still healthy mind, knowledge & experience – as I have before – given the chance & proper, decent medical treatment. I have experienced personally & witnessed often that tears, begging & collapse has no effect on their personnel. I am at my whit's end. These people destroy every vestige of self-confidence & faith in humanity, and will drive you insane or to suicide. I am not asking for much, just that they do the jobs we pay them for: professionally, competently & with pride, without violating our human rights so completely, and actually executive those statement posters EVERYWHERE on their premises of dignity & human rights. The Health department CANNOT lay claim to all of these prominent statements when there is absolutely zero proof of any of them are in fact present in the actions & attitudes of its personnel, EVER anywhere in any of their medical facilities!! NO so called Human Rights for All are enforced by them anywhere regarding their clients & patients!

I NEED to be helped immediately – as they claim - , since I am a crisis patient with diabetes, disabled with at least 2 debilitating, degenerative diseases, in constant, severe pain, shaking from weakness and exhaustion, and live out of town by myself (can't afford closer) & have no family willing or able to do this for me. ALL my COMPLETE medication – which keeps me alive - should be sent to my clinic (Westdene Clinic, Bloemfontein) on time every month – as they claim - to avoid more costly, painful & exhausting travel to get the rest at the hospital pharmacy (National Hospital, Bloemfontein) even further away. I cannot afford all of this financially nor health wise. My useless health continues to deteriorate because of their actions and attitudes. The general public, which are fortunate enough not to be forced to have to use these "medical services", have no idea how we are victimized by the personnel of the Health department on an on-going basis. They might care if they know about it all or have family or friends forced to use their "services". When will our pleas be taken seriously & the Health department be held responsible and forced to stop their abusive attitudes & action, and start doing their jobs – which they get paid for by all of us - effectively, efficiently and with pride and empathy as it should be‼??

I would not & never have treated anyone as ruthlessly and callously as they do. Would you? Would you allow yourself to be treated like that? You would have absolutely NO CHOICE if you are poor & sick. We do not deserve this kind of treatment. No one does.

End this evil completely once and for all‼