I've always been terrified of public hospitals. The stench of illness and their inherent eeriness has always gotten to me. When, at the invitation of the Discovery Fund, I found out that I'd be visiting 5 public hospitals in the Umkhanyakude District, Northern Zululand
A scholarship programme has been producing doctors for South Africa’s understaffed rural hospitals since 1999, but provinces don’t have the money to employ their recent graduates. Could the country’s planned National Health Insurance scheme fix this?
Doctor Thulani Ngwenya has no plans to leave his job at Bethesda Hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal for a post in a city. Ngwenya grew up near the facility and he’s determined to serve his community for as long as possible. Get to know him better with our reporter, Dylan Bush.