Fixing the problems in both the public and private health system will help ensure all people in South Africa get quality and healthcare
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Although I can empathise with both the patients and the healthcare workers in that video and the temptation exists to decry the public sector and tar everything and everyone in it with the same brush, a more fruitful approach would be to remind us all of what quality healthcare is meant to be and where our failings are.
I doubt that my colleagues enter the medical field aiming to be callous and profiteering, but a system of overwork and under-resourcing , coupled with the corporatisation of medicine has eroded the ethos and ethics of many healthcare workers. This trickles down through the ranks to our students, who are taught through fear and bullying, and an overall lack of respect for colleagues — ultimately all leading to the dehumanisation of our patients as the most vulnerable in this system.
Fixing the chronic underfunding, inefficiencies and safety concerns that erode the equitable intentions of the public sector;
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