The time is 11:37 on a cool Thursday morning in a rural town in South Africa. It is winter and a couple walk through the wooden doors of a dental clinic that attends to a little over a thousand patients a month from different parts of a vast community. The couple quitely takes a seat next to the last person in the queue and they quietly wait fo ...
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Jun 15, 2018
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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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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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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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Apr 20, 2018
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“..all healthcare providers – even private entities – will be performing a public function in the furtherance of equality, dignity and the right to access healthcare.” In order to facilitate dialogue around the licensing regime for healthcare facilities and the way it affects competition in the private healthcare sector, the Health ...
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Dec 15, 2017
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By Karessa Govender, Published in The Daily Maverick, 17 November 2017 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-11-17-are-south-african-health-workers-being-silenced-into-malpractice/#.Wg6MYROCxE4 “There is really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” The word ...
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On the 15th of August 2017, the Rural Health Advocacy Project in partnership with the Canzibe Hospital Board held a Community Dialogue/Imbizo at the Canzibe Community Hall. Partner organisations that were present were TAC, One2One Enable Mothers, The Jabulani Foundation and RuDASA. The imbizo was attended by over 150 community members from Canz ...
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Nov 9, 2017
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RHAP’s Mafoko Phomane recently gave a lecture to Wits Public Health students on the role of advocacy in advancing health care access – Lessons from the Canzibe #Countdownto1July Campaign. HRH Crisis – The Canzibe Story MPH Lecture ...
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Sep 20, 2017
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