There are serious concerns over the safety of health workers at public health facilities in the Eastern Cape, with some healthcare workers saying they are scared to go to work. Although the provincial health department says it shares this concern, it remains tight-lipped about its plans and the.
The Eastern Cape department of health has allocated R1.42bn to renovate and refurbish 110 healthcare centres across the province in the 2023/24 financial year which begins next week.
Budgets, while important, are not the right mechanism to drive the structural change needed to improve the responsiveness of our public health system in meeting the needs of the population. But, argues Russel Rensburg, we can reorient the health system towards meeting the health needs of the po.