From porters to engineers, hospital staff navigate chronic underfunding and staffing shortages while maintaining world-class care at one of South Africa’s most storied medical institutions
While progress has been made in some sectors, there are critical gaps in the healthcare infrastructure
Even advice from the Parliamentary Legal Advisor that the NHI Bill is not constitutional has been ignored
Health workers in dysfunctional settings may abuse birthing patients as part of a strange rite of passage, and low-income women with less agency are more likely to suffer obstetric violence. This final year medical student relates his experience
The pandemic is happening in the context of a healthcare system we have allowed to decay