Healthcare System
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Anatomy of a hospital: Groote Schuur in a time of budget and staffing cuts
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…
The state of health in South Africa: Reflections and future directions
While progress has been made in some sectors, there are critical gaps in the healthcare infrastructure
National Health Insurance and Lesufi’s honest appraisal of public health failures
Even advice from the Parliamentary Legal Advisor that the NHI Bill is not constitutional has been ignored
Obstetric violence: The hard labour of delivery
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…
Covid-19 vaccine will not be a magic bullet for the ailing healthcare system
The pandemic is happening in the context of a healthcare system we have allowed to decay