Karl le Roux

Karl le Roux (born 1 December 1974) is a South African physician and politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Democratic Alliance (DA) since 2024.

Quotes

• I hope to contribute meaningfully to policy and legislation on the health portfolio committee, including using its oversight role to probe hospitals and clinics in which massive healthcare failures are occurring in South Africa.
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• “A lack of accountability is the slow poison that destroys government and public services
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• “When we started at Zithulele, we were young and idealistic. We wanted to build a rural hospital of excellence and to serve as a model for other areas. But the idea of excellence can be a double-edged sword and can come at the cost of relationships,” he says. “If you focus too much on outcomes rather than processes, you can end up losing the nurses and healthcare workers you’re working with. We realised we should rather be realistic in our work context.”
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• there are four things we should do well in health: HIV and TB and the infectious diseases; we need to make inroads into violence prevention, particularly around alcohol; the epidemic of maternal child morbidity and mortality, and the emerging aspect of non-communicable diseases.”
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