The 2010s: From diabetes to Life Esidimeni, health dominated headlines this decade
THROUGH the past 10 years, South Africa has battled with a health burden which combines communicable diseases such as HIV/Aids and tuberculosis, with lifestyle diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease and illnesses relating to drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. Adding extra strain to this is excessive demand for trauma care due to interpersonal violence and motor vehicle collisions, and an ever-growing demand for mental health services.
The majority of residents seek health care in the overburdened and under-resourced state hospital system, while approximately 16% rely on an increasingly unaffordable and unreliable private health insurance industry. As our country seeks to better care for its citizens, these are some of the biggest health stories which made the news in the past 10 years.
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