Rural Doctors Association Of South Africa
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Warring Zithulele Hospital leaders transferred
This comes after recent protests by local residents demanding that the hospital’s new chief executive step down
Basson recusal application fails
The petition in question was initiated by the People’s Health Movement, not the South African Medical Association or the Rural Doctors Association.
Care is cast aside beyond the city limits
Primary healthcare barely exists outside our urban centres, and apartheid-ordained inequality is stark.
Community healthworkers shafted by SA’s policy shambles
The community healthworker system is in chaos, leaving vulnerable communities at risk.
KZN health minister accused of witch-hunt
KwaZulu-Natal’s health minister Peggy Nkonyeni has been accused by the Treatment Action Campaign of orchestrating a ”witch-hunt” against two doctors.
Patients pay price in ailing health system
Samson Mashaba struggles to retain his sense of humour as he waits to see his doctor. ”If you’re unlucky, you’ll die standing here,” says the 69-year-old as he surveys the queue…