Rahima Moosa Hospital caters for a very large number of women and children. The large patient numbers and high burden of care have a negative impact on the hospital.
- Professor of Public Health and DST/NRF Research Chair., University of the Witwatersrand
The first step of any public health response must be prevention. Preventing new infections and containing the pandemic protects health systems from getting close to collapse.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
Setting up 24 hour clinics in a busy metropole such as Johannesburg would help those who need health care most.
To turn around the performance of South Africa’s health system and make it more equal, there are three challenges that need to be addressed.
To address corruption in the South African health sector, a combination of political will with an effective government, citizen involvement and advocacy is needed.
Nurses who moonlight admit they feel too tired to work and don’t provide the best quality of care on duty.
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