‘Stop defunding our health system,’ rights summit panellists say as SA takes stock of 30 years of democracy
This is why government officials, dignitaries and civil society are gathered at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg for the three-day conference. It aims to Reading from the Africans’ Claims document drafted by the ANC in 1943, Phaahla said: “We regard it as a duty of the state to provide adequate medical health facilities for the entire population of the country. We deplore and deprecate the fact that the state has not carried out its duty to the Africans in this regard and has left this important duty to philanthropic and voluntary agencies.”
Since 1994, the government had also put policy in place ensuring no one seeking care was turned away from a public healthcare facility, and no one could be denied emergency care from any healthcare facility in the country, public or private.The government had also ensured that as many people as possible had access to healthcare facilities by implementing a massive infrastructure programme in which district and regional hospitals, teaching hospitals and clinics had been built across the country.
“But I think the biggest challenge to our system today, 30 years down the line, is the fact that we have not been able to close the gap, which our forebears in 1943 and also in 1952 had already identified in terms of making sure that we close the gap between access and quality of access to health services by those who have income and those… who have low income and unemployed.”
Stevenson echoed Phaahla’s statements that while a lot has been achieved in the healthcare system, there is room for improvement.
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