will no longer qualify for the disability grant as is currently the case the exclusion is not intentional but is a means to address the effective identification of disability on eighteen may twenty ten the department of health made a presentation before the committee on the state of readiness to implement the harmonised assessment tool but to our surprise the department reported that they were not ready to implement the tool to assess patient eligibility for disability grants due to a shortage of trained health professionals who could use the tool they further acknowledged that the primary health care system needs to be strengthened according to chapter two of the constitution the bill of rights the department of health must ensure that everyone has a right to have access to sufficient food