RuDASA Calls for Oxygen Therapy in District Hospitals Many patients with COVID-19 appear relatively alert and well until quite dangerously hypoxic (lacking in oxygen). Ox ...
By Lungile Gamede – RHAP Graduate Intern According to the World Health Organisation, a well-functioning healthcare system is defined as one that “responds in a bal ...
Rural Health Update A word from our director, Russell Rensburg We are nearing the end of the third week in lockdown and RHAP has been hard at work from our various h ...
This opinion piece by Lydia Cairncross, Louis Reynolds, Russell Rensburg & Leslie London was published in the Daily Maverick on 22 April. As we approach the probable ...
In this letter to Minister of Health Dr Mkhize, the above organisations identify core principles for agreements with hospital groups and private healthcare services provi ...
The COVID19 pandemic has brought about a paradigm shift in how we think about information. For the first time in recent history you can be arrested for creating or spread ...
As a member of this coalition, RHAP cannot emphasize enough the urgency of this intervention. ” We, a group of concerned academics, civil society leaders and other ...
A list of critical points at municipal district level, health district level, community awareness and facility readiness. ...
Healthcare workers can report Personal Protective Equipment and essential medicines stock-outs to the SAHCS/SSP. Refer to the contact details in the image. ...
https://city-press.news24.com/Voices/covid-19-lockdown-responses-from-farmworkers-to-sex-workers-to-csos-20200328 ” Rensburg told Spotlight that the social mitigati ...
By Lydia Cairncross for Spotlight• 20 March 2020 Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, the world has been bombarded with messages about how to curb the sp ...
https://budgetjusticesa.org/media/budget-justice-coalition-escalation-of-measures-to-combat-covid-19-epidemic-prioritises-lives-but-not-livelihoods/ The Budget Justice Co ...
The Rural Doctors Association of South Africa has issued a statement through which it promotes four lessons for addressing COVID-19 in a rural South African Context: 4 le ...
Visit the South African government’s Covid-19 portal at sacoronavirus.co.za for credible information and latest updates. ...
The RHAP submitted its comment on the NHI Bill today. In our submission we argue that the NHI goals of equity and social justice in health and healthcare require distinct ...
By Lungi Gamede – Graduate Intern RHAP As a qualified professional nurse who has worked in public primary healthcare in a rural setting, I have come to realize how ...
Read RHAP’s full submission on the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement here. Executive Summary An investment in health is an investment in people. Health is no ...
“We had a terrible nine years… we need to start charting a path to shared prosperity… access to health can do that…” by Russell Rensburg Listen to the full ra ...
Content hosted by iono.fm John Perlman on KHAYAFM had an in-depth look at the much talked about NHI. The conversation was probing the impact NHI will have on the working ...
Content hosted by iono.fm In this radio interview on SAFM’s Moneyweb, Russell speaks about RHAP’s research on good practices in protecting healthcare during t ...
