Today I will write to Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi about another ailment in his department, this time the risk of health officials benefitting illegally from the black market trading of human placenta. This comes after the exposure of malpractice at provincial hospitals whereby more than one placenta is stored in a removal bin when disposed from the hospital, enabling officials to make the extra placenta(s) "disappear".
I will therefore require Minister Motsoaledi to promulgate with immediate effect a regulation limiting the storage and removal of human placenta to one per storage bin.
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