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Access to healthcare is highly inequitable; only 14.6% of the population is covered by medical aid, yet those individuals still face significant out-of-pocket costs, while the majority of the population suffers from a crumbling and inefficient system.
Problems in public healthcare are the result of budget cuts and staff shortages rather than migrant presence.
In the mental health field, it is imperative to develop a lifestyle model of mental health.
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick A Puzzle Bad faith is involved when the billionaire President of South Africa and the ANC, who presides over the world’s most unequal country, dismisses the objections to the NHI Act on the basis...
Having waited what should be the requisite few days for the dust to settle before commenting on something as significant as the dramatic signing into law of the National Health Insurance Bill (NHI) on the 15th of May - I believe it is time for us as a nation to have...
Last week, our dear friend and comrade Ayanda Kota was diagnosed very unexpectedly with cancer and SIADH (Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion). A private hospital made the diagnosis following a very frightening time for Ayanda and his family....
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” - Martin Luther King SOUTH AFRICA SUFFERS FROM AN enormous burden of disease and ill health that affects all of us. It affects us as individuals. But it also affects us as a...