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    "content": "medical health to everybody and setting up of hospitals. Otherwise, it would be setting up the Constitution to failure. So, the courts said that as long as the government can say the amount of money allocated to health and it is a fair allocation which has been used well, the fact that some areas may not receive some of these things should not be seen as a bar. So, we need to be careful how we craft this Motion; otherwise it can set us against other matters. The trend that we are taking can make the constitutional implementation process lack legitimacy. In that particular case, the constitutional court ruled against the person because the hospital came and explained how they do things. They justified why they could not give dialysis to the man. They said that normally they have only three machines at the provincial hospital and they decide who is able to get into the machine depending on his or her condition. If your condition is so bad, they cannot allow someone to the dialysis because one might die. So, the court said that the man’s condition was so bad and he might die. To the shock of many in South Africa, after the ruling of the court, the man died two days later. You can imagine how the constitutional legitimacy debate began. So, we need to be careful as we tread on the right to health and the other socio- economic rights in the Constitution. We must know that there is no infinite source of money. So, as much as this Motion helps us in a big way to solve the problem of equity in our health facilities in this country, in my view, the House should be able to make sure that it does not illegitimize our Constitution or impose unbearable duties unnecessarily on the Government."
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