The Bill of Rights requires humane conditions of detention – including "adequate medical treatment". Government is obliged to secure these entitlements, writes former Constitutional Court judge Edwin Cameron.
Edwin Cameron is the Inspecting Judge of Correctional Services and a member of the GroundUp board.
At last at long, long last Covid-19 vaccinations are happening. The pharmacist who gave me the flu jab described her joy and relief at being vaccinated. Every vaccinated healthcare worker not only gets personal protection against Covid but protects patients from infection by them. In the coming months, this beneficent circle of protection will spread. But as we yearn for quicker roll-out as a sixty-plus, I registered instantly on the government site some thorny public health, ethical, political and economic questions demand our attention.