Presidential Health Summit report released

Mahikeng Hospital’s operating theatres have only just started to run again. There’s only a temporary air-conditioning unit in place instead of a specialised chiller unit. It’s a stop-gap measure after services here came to a complete halt for two months.

Late last year several hundred people who work or have connections with the health sector gathered in Johannesburg under the banner of the “Presidential Health Summit”. Yesterday Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi released a report which “contains the output of the deliberations of the first Presidential Health Summit held in Boksburg on 19 and 20 October”.

Read the President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech here Speech on the launch of the Health Summit Report (which was read by Motsoaledi). The full report can be read here Presidential Health Summit 2018 Report

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