The DA in Kwa Zulu Natal says it is deeply concerned by ongoing safety issues at the province's healthcare facilities, which escalated to the 'execution-style' shooting and killing of a patient at Durban's Clairwood Hospital on Friday evening.
The party says the incident took place in front of other patients and hospital staff.
The DA says in a statement of particular concern, is that the attackers drove onto the hospital premises seemingly without any security checks, and then later forced their way out of the hospital by pointing guns at the facility's security guards.
Meanwhile, the IFP says the frequency of incidents in which criminals "do as they please" in government hospitals, is a clear indication that the KwaZulu-Natal health department has failed dismally to take the issue of hospital safety seriously.
The party said officials from the national health department had promised to put law enforcement at all public health care facilities, but this plan had yet to materialise.
(Additional reporting by African News Agency)
