Activists say that at least one patient has been trying to get treatment since 2013. Only one radiation oncologist is left to treat cancer patients in North West, a health department statement shows. “With only one oncologist, cancer treatment here is impossible,” says Adele Botha, the North West divisional manager for the Cancer Association of ...
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Patients have died as a result of the recent strike in North West. Doctors and nurses were also chased out of operating theatres and wards by strikers. How can patients and health workers be protected from becoming victims of a fight that is aimed an employer? Sixty-four patients may have died in one district of the North West alone during the ...
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May 21, 2018
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RHAP has written a letter to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) requesting an urgent investigation into the health impact of the protest and industrial action that has wracked health facilities in the North West Province. Many facilities have been closed or partially opened for lengths of time with large numbers of people in comm ...
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May 10, 2018
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Join our Voice Team at the Africa Health Conference on 29 May 2018 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Objectives of Voice workshops: • Participants have insight into legal and policy foundations of the right to health • You can learn more about Advocacy approaches and the different roles played by health care workers • Health ...
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May 10, 2018
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Read more from RHAP intern, Natasha Salant on why the NHI may lead to better health budgets: Rands and Sense: Why the NHI may lead to better health budgets About 200m from where I work in Rosebank, Johannesburg, there is a private clinic housing a general practitioner, a team of specialised surgeons, a rehabilitation centre, and state-of-the-ar ...
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May 8, 2018
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RHAP Statement on North West Health Emergency ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE IN NORTH WEST PROVINCE REMAINS UNDER SIEGE DESPITE APPOINTMENT OF NATIONAL TASK Demands by 70 North West doctors for “The National Department of Health to guarantee both patients’ and health care workers’ safety when receiving and delivering services” has not been met one week ...
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May 3, 2018
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Letter of concern: Ongoing Health Crisis in the North-West Province Background: Currently there is a crisis in the provision of health care in the North-West Province. This is a result of action taken by various groups who were angered by chronically unresolved issues which resulted in violence and closure of health care facilities. The crisis ...
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Apr 23, 2018
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The political action and healthcare workers strike in North West is widening beyond Mafikeng, with clinics and hospitals closing across Districts. Patients lives are under direct threat and lives have already been lost. Healthcare workers wanting to go to work are threatened. The right to health needs to be protected! Healthcare-in-protests-MSF ...
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Negotiations for an #MSLA stalled in 2011. Here is the legal opinion and discussion document that was then developed for RHAP and RuDASA as clients of SECTION27. These negotiations need to be revisited! Discussion document _legal brief MSLA_2011 Press Statement: Urgently Finalise the Minimum Service Level Agreement for the Health Sector ...
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In June 2011, a joint press statement with several civil society organisations was released about the need to finalise the minimum service level agreement (MSLA). We remain convinced that an MSLA is still relevant and necessary because a large number of people living in South Africa are dependent on the public sector for health services. PRESS ...
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