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How healthy is South Africa's public health system? And how big are the gaps between promises and practice? We visit the provinces to determine South Africa's real state of health. This week the M&G looks at Limpopo, the most northerly of South Africa's nine provinces, where the extreme poverty of the local inhabitants is constrasted starkly with world-famous luxury game lodges.
Until politics takes a back seat, people will continue to die in the province's hospitals.
Three critical pieces of health legislation are about to be signed into law or are being drafted for future legislation. These are the regulations relating to a transparent pricing system for medicines and scheduled substances, social health insurance and the certificate of need.
Almost 10 years ago, Eben Donges Hospital in Worcester acknowledged a looming nursing crisis and established a groundbreaking learnership programme that has uplifted the community and averted massive nursing vacancies. "We realised that our staff must be our most important asset and that we would need to invest in their training and development if we wanted to retain our current staff and attract new members," said former nurse Liesl Strauss.
About 1.4-million South Africans with HIV/Aids are receiving ARVs -- a figure closer to the target set by the present national strategic plan.
How healthy is South Africa's public health system? And how big are the gaps between promises and practice? We visit the provinces to determine South Africa's real state of health. This week the M&G looks at Limpopo, the most northerly of South Africa's nine provinces, where the extreme poverty of the local inhabitants is constrasted starkly with world-famous luxury game lodges.
Until politics takes a back seat, people will continue to die in the province's hospitals.
Three critical pieces of health legislation are about to be signed into law or are being drafted for future legislation. These are the regulations relating to a transparent pricing system for medicines and scheduled substances, social health insurance and the certificate of need.
