The TAC wants the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, closed after a fire in April, to reopen fully as soon as possible, because other hospitals are overburdened.
While officials remain entangled in bureaucratic knots, clinicians warn that the continued closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital risks a ‘humanitarian disaster’
Dr Thembisile Xulu, the newly appointed chief executive of the Sanac Trust, tells Nicolene de Wee about a new plan to fight HIV, TB and STIs — and her hip-hop dance moves
The DRC has systematically gone about strengthening health infrastructure, engaging the community and doing better research
We need an entirely new way of doing things to put an end to poverty
We need to work together regardless of our political ideologies to build the health system, stabilise the economy and protect the most vulnerable in society
In addition to other measures, the province’s response the outbreak of the coronavirus will be to ‘sort out’ the public healthcare system
This is no time to snigger at the high rates of coronavirus in the Global North. We could be just as hard hit — and it is poor people who will suffer the most