The opposition Democratic Alliance says it will formally reject the draft regulations to the National Health Act which aim to replace South Africa’s state of disaster and lockdown restrictions.
to the National Health Act which aim to replace South Africa’s state of disaster and lockdown restrictions.
“Worryingly, the regulations pave the way for patients to be forced to submit to medical examination, which may include providing any bodily sample. These patients – or suspected patients – may also be forced into a quarantine facility or isolation site and be forced to mandatory prophylaxis, treatment, isolation or quarantine.”
“Based on the current state of our public healthcare, it is especially worrisome that the state wants to enforce these regulations – not only with confirmed cases, but also suspected cases of the particular medical condition. We, therefore, urge the public to participate in this process and object to this flagrant attempt of state control.”
“Almost all of these regulations represent the type of measures that had little or no impact during the lockdown. Clearly, no rational motivation exists for this, and one gets the impression that the government is now simply regulating for the sake of regulating,” said Connie Mulder, head of the Solidarity Research Institute .
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