In April the Gauteng high court ruled that pregnant women and children under six years old must have access to free public health services irrespective of nationality and documentation status.
Priscilla Tumira from Zimbabwe thinks she is eight months pregnant, but she has not had any prenatal healthcare. Without valid documents, Tumira says, staff at Jeppe and Hillbrow clinics in Johannesburg refused her registration for prenatal care.
‘Everything was lost during the eviction. Now I sleep with my children in a room with many others’ says mother evicted by alleged Operation Dudula members.
Members of Operation Dudula have been chasing away immigrants from the Jeppe Clinic in central Johannesburg. The provincial health department says it is not aware of this.
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