SA’s grandmothers are breadwinners in their old age, and their inability to access decent healthcare quickly impacts on their children, grandchildren and their entire communities. Health-e News’ Kim Harrisberg reports. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/no-time-for-emergencies-20170507-2 Six elderly women sit inside a corrugated iron shac ...
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Canzibe Hospital is a 120 bed hospital in Nqeleni area in the Eastern Cape. For some time, the hospital has experienced a severe shortage of doctors and rehabilitation specialists. The shortage has meant that outreach services were halted and remaining doctors overworked and under-supported. ECHCAC member, the Rural Health Advocacy Project (“RH ...
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This report shows both the gravity and the complexity of the HRH crisis for rural communities in South Africa. While many of the challenges described affect health services at all levels and in urban and peri-urban areas as well, it is clear that rural South Africans are uniquely vulnerable to the effects of staffing cuts, and disproportionatel ...
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Rural Health Update: Community Service Medical Officer Allocations 2017: Salt in an open wound 14 December 2016 The first round of community service (comserve) allocations of medical officers (MO) for 2017 was completed three weeks ago. The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) conducted a preliminary investigation into the two provinces (Easter ...
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The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services by Laura Lopez Gonzalez on February 1, 2016 in Health Funding, Health Management, News Facing a R9-billion shortfall just to meet salary demands, provincial health departments are freezing posts. Whether couched openly in memos or hidden between the lines of spiralling bureaucracy, staff fre ...
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The purpose of this working paper is to draw attention to the causes, consequences and possible responses to the implementation of moratoria on the filling of posts within the health system. Human resource moratoria, also referred to as the ‘freezing of posts’, have become an increasingly common occurrence within the public health system over t ...
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ECDoH Circular Staffing Moratoria_frozen posts_ September 2015 ...
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Read the grim findings of the South African Human Rights Commission’s Hearing into access to emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape. RHAP’s Prinitha Pillay served the committee as external panelist. National inquiry to be launched into emergency medical services by Laura Lopez Gonzalez on October 2, 2015 in Emergency Medica ...
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Originally published in the May 2014 newsletter of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA). Daygan Eagar, Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP)’s health budget specialist and Programme Manager for the Rural-Proofing Policy and Budgeting Programme. He provides health budget and policy monitoring training to communities and civil soc ...
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Download the EC Health Act here. ...
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