Opinion: The new health system we build through the NHI must be green

Posted in: Spotlight

The recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape showed us how climate change harms people’s health and healthcare services. On the other hand, modern health care systems contribute to climate change through large greenhouse gas emissions. In the development of South Africa’s National Health Insurance system we have an opportunity to address both these sides of the challenge that climate change poses for health systems, argues Dr Louis Reynolds of the People’s Health Movement SA.

Opinion: The new health system we build through the NHI must be green

Opinion: Reframing the right to healthcare in terms of insurance cover is a bad idea

Posted in: Healthcare system, Latest, NHI, Spotlight on NHI

Framing the fundamental human right to healthcare as insurance cover opens it up for exploitation. It blocks any possibility of achieving equity in health care. Here Dr Louis Reynolds from the People’s Health Movement of South Africa explains why and how.

Opinion: Reframing the right to healthcare in terms of insurance cover is a bad idea

IN-DEPTH: Are clinic committees a missing link in SA’s COVID-19 response?

Posted in: Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Latest, Provinces, Western Cape

Clinic Committees can be a powerful link between the community and primary healthcare facilities. Several clinic committee members however say they have been side-lined in South Africa’s COVID-19 response. Tiyese Jeranji reports.

IN-DEPTH: Are clinic committees a missing link in SA’s COVID-19 response?

COVID-19: We need a People-led not Army-enforced Lockdown

Posted in: Latest

South Africa’s 21-day lockdown is a drastic measure intended to help and protect the public. For it to work it needs an extraordinary level of trust, communication and clear messaging and will have to be implemented with belief, commitment and engagement by the vast majority of our people, writes Dr Lydia Cairncross and Kelly Gillespie.