Kgosi Letlape

Kgosi Letlape (born 14 April 1959) is an ophthalmologist, health care leader, and Member of Parliament in South Africa. Quotes I was raised in a culture of being useful to others and making people lives better. And being qualified as a doctor, my oath means helping patients and improving the quality of their lives and doing no harm to them. So even when they harm themselves, if there is an opportunity to help them reduce harm to themselves, because sometimes you can’t make people stop harming themselves. As you have heard, it’s difficult to get people to stop smoking, just in like HIV and AIDS, and it’s very difficult in Africa to get people from being re-infected and infecting others. So you embark on trying to help reduce harm to them. In essence, in retrospect, all we do as doctors is to reduce harm in many aspects. So my interests in it have been about knowing about the degree of harm that combustible cigarettes do. When something comes along that will be better for those that smoke, that can’t stop for whatever reason, I felt it would be important to an advocate of them. So what brings me here is the fact that, you know the old adage of ‘’people are addicted to the nicotine but they die from the tar’’. So if there are safer ways of delivering nicotine, I have a duty as a doctor to bring those to the attention of society and my patients. Members called for immediate intervention, including improved cross-departmental communication. They also called for infrastructure upgrades, better security protocols and a cultural shift within government leadership to prioritise human dignity over bureaucratic box-ticking. Professionalism must be matched with professional environments When a Thusong Centre is fully functional, it is amazing how much efficient service can be delivered to the people. Each centre and the services provided should reflect the needs of the surrounding community,” External links Category:Living people Category:Politicians from South Africa Category:Physicians from South Africa Category:1959 births