The teachings of HIV, TB and Covid: Value community healthcare workers more
Community healthcare workers are indispensable to fighting health epidemics yet most are treated as volunteers deserving only of a stipend.
Department of Health
Eastern Cape healthcare needs fixing – Ritshidze report
Staff shortages, staff attitudes, extended waiting times and medicine stockouts are crippling health services in the province.
Careworkers in Khayelitsha march for better working conditions
About 300 community careworkers marched from Day Hospital in Site B Khayeltisha to the health district offices demanding better working conditions.
Workers and community picket against closure of children’s hospital
A hospital for children is facing imminent closure after withdrawal of funding by the Department of Health.
Forced to sign with Smart Purse
An outsourced company has been failing careworkers in Gauteng.
After protesting for three months against their employment being outsourced by the Gauteng Department of Health, community health care workers including those in Alexandra said they have given up the fight.
They eventually decided to sign up with the outsourced company, Smart Purse, because they were locked out and not allowed to work.
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