A case of sick clinical management at Mpumalanga’s Tintswalo Hospital
Published in the Daily Maverick Situated in the remote heartland of Mpumalanga, Tintswalo Hospital should be a facility that offers public healthcare to the community of Acornhoek, many of whom are...
View ArticleTake care over the next hill
Published in the Mail and Guardian. What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor? By Daygan Eagar Perched on a hill overlooking the N2 on the outskirts of East...
View ArticleAll in a hard day’s work – A clinical associate’s first day at work in a...
Hardly two weeks on the job and doctors and nurses at Carletonville Hospital’s maternity ward say that Victor Mokokotlela is a welcome relief. As one of the inaugural clinical associates to graduate...
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Rural Health: Grossly Unequal but Some Hope
Groundup Opinion Piece. 03 December 2013. Dr Thomas Yates reflects on the state of rural health in this opinion piece published in GroundUp on the 3rd December 2013. While there are significant unmet...
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Re-Imagining Rural Health – The State of Rural Health 20 years into Democracy
Originally published in the May 2014 newsletter of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA). Daygan Eagar, Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP)’s health budget specialist and Programme...
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Certificate of Need: Too much stick, not enough carrot
In this opinion piece published in the Mail and Guardian on 25 July 2014 Daygan Eagar argues that the state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare. During a...
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RHAP’s Daygan Eagar: M&G Top 200 Young South African
RHAP celebrates Daygan Eagar’s achievement as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans in the Mail and Guardian’s 2014 Edition, published on the 25 of July 2014. A much deserved acknowledgement of...
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Free State protest for community health workers
Bloemfontein recently came to a standstill as community health workers (CHW) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) marched to the magistrate’s court in support of 118 health workers arrested in July...
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If SA is Winning Where are all its Prized Doctors?
In response to the earlier feature in the Sunday Times ‘SA is the winner as local doctors stay put” (22 March 2015) RHAP’s Director Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga questions if we are really “winning” in this...
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National Inquiry into EMS And Eastern Cape commitments to solving emergency...
Read the grim findings of the South African Human Rights Commission’s Hearing into access to emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape. RHAP’s Prinitha Pillay served the committee as external...
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Health-E Raises Alarm on Frozen Posts following RHAP Investigation
The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services by Laura Lopez Gonzalez on February 1, 2016 in Health Funding, Health Management, News Facing a R9-billion shortfall just to meet salary demands,...
View ArticleMinister says: No Moratorium on Medical Posts
No Moratorium on Medical Posts. 8 February 2016 The Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi is highly disturbed by media reports that suggest that medical posts are frozen in the country. The report...
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Press Statement: The RHAP welcomes the Health Minister’s statement on...
The RHAP welcomes the Health Minister’s statement on staffing moratoria and calls for the protection of critical health posts in times of austerity 9 February 2016 The RHAP welcomes the Minister’s...
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MTBPS 2016: The Rural Health Advocacy Project warns against further health...
Rural Health Advocacy Project Press Statement MTBPS 2016: The Rural Health Advocacy Project warns against further health service cuts to those most in need following continued fiscal consolidation 27...
View ArticleAusterity measures may leave SA’s next generation of health workers unemployed
Austerity measures may leave SA’s next generation of health workers unemployed 16 Jan 2017 00:00 By: Joan van Dyk Original source:...
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No time for emergencies
SA’s grandmothers are breadwinners in their old age, and their inability to access decent healthcare quickly impacts on their children, grandchildren and their entire communities. Health-e News’ Kim...
View ArticleRural Health Crisis Looms
Posted in The New Age , June 12 2017 Rural health crisis looms DESPITE a multibillion-rand investment by the government to improve access to quality healthcare in the country’s rural areas, an alarming...
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Are South African health workers being silenced into malpractice?
By Karessa Govender, Published in The Daily Maverick, 17 November 2017...
View ArticleSouth Africa Today and Beyond: Rural Health and Healthcare Worker Advocacy
The post South Africa Today and Beyond: Rural Health and Healthcare Worker Advocacy appeared first on RHAP.
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Stimulus Package for Health (Special Emphasis on Human Resources for Health)
The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has announced the creation of more than 5 300 posts for health workers, both clinical and support staff – throughout the country. This announcement is done...
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