Medicine stockouts in SA persist due to ongoing challenges. Efforts are being made to ensure clinics and pharmacies do not run out of important medicines.
In 2022, Ben Gaunt, who led a team who transformed Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape from a struggling public health facility into a poster child of excell
Tracing the close contacts of people ill with tuberculosis and offering them TB preventive therapy is part of South Africa’s strategy to fight the disease.
Doctor Ben Gaunt led a team that transformed Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape from a struggling public health facility into a poster child for excellence. In 2022, after a decade of service, Gaunt resigned. The drama, which followed the appointment of a controversial CEO, was well publici.