Today, Maverick Citizen publishes an unprecedented open letter from more than 130 senior health professionals addressed to the Minister of Health and the Premier of Gauteng.
The health professionals include senior academics, senior specialists of major public hospitals and heads of department, a former director-general, deputy director-general, deans of university health faculties, former heads of provincial health departments, the chair and CEO of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, the president of the Medical Research Council and the CEO of the board of Healthcare Funders.
The Minister of Health and Gauteng’s premier have yet to respond. We will seek and publish their response in due course. –https://www.dailymaverick.co.
Victimisation of healthcare professionals who expose the profound administrative deficiencies plaguing public health facilities is accelerating the outward migration of health professionals who can no longer endure the moral injury caused by working in conditions that violate their ethical obligations.
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