From rural doctor to MP? ‘I hope to continue to serve,’ says Dr Karl le Roux

During the course of 16 exhausting but rewarding years working in a remote rural hospital in the Eastern Cape, Dr Karl le Roux came to realise just how dysfunctional the province’s Department of Health is – and the extent to which a lack of accountability can really harm the poorest of the poor.Le Roux left Zithulele Hospital 18 months ago and has now turned his hand to politics. He’s hopeful that after the 29 May elections he can start making a difference by serving on Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health. The odds that he will become a member of Parliament are good, given…