Newly graduated Dr Leago Sebesho says she is learning on her feet during gruelling shifts at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto. Biénne Huisman caught up with the twenty-five-year-old Sebesho, who was recently awarded the Bongani Mayosi Leadership Prize at the University of Cape Town.
Troubles regarding the placement of community service doctors have made headlines once again this year, as it seems to do most years. The structural roots of these problems are long-standing and complex. Elna Schütz unpacks the complexities and talks to role-players about possible solutions.
The national budget tabled this week shows that planned spending on public health is reduced by a massive R50.3 billion over the next three years. We cannot accept a vaccine versus health system trade-off. Government must both expedite the procurement of vaccines and ensure that provinces have the staff and other capabilities to rapidly roll them out and to maintain and improve the quality of healthcare services, argue writers from SECTION27.
