Black Business Council Weighs In On African & Indian Doctors Discrimination Claims

Riyaz Patel

The Black Business Council (BBC) is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and all role players to discuss the alleged racial discrimination by medical aid schemes.

This after the Council of Medical Schemes (CMS) set up a Section 59 investigation to probe allegations of racial profiling and payments to African and Indian doctors being withheld by medical aid schemes.

Black doctors are arguing that they are excessively audited by medical aid schemes and then accused of claiming fraudulently.

They are also allegedly expected to provide confidential patient information to prove their claims are genuine.

At the week-long public hearings last week, African and Indian doctors testified how they were bullied by medical aid schemes who queried their claims and refused to pay, which had left some of them destitute.