Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.The theme of this year’s World Health Day on 7 April is “my health, my right” and emphasises the right to health and health care.
What are the implications of this for health care? One of the immediate consequences is a moratorium on the filling of posts. As health workers leave their posts they may not be replaced. In the Western Cape alone 1,958 posts are now unfunded and cannot be filled. In 2023, the department of health and wellness in the Western Cape announced it faced massive in-year cuts to the budget. This resulted from cuts to conditional grants , re-formulation of the allocations between provinces and an unfunded wage bill . This was due to a public sector wage increase that was agreed to by the government, but not funded by the treasury. The increase therefore had to be absorbed into the existing budget.
One must also take a moment to think of the psychological impact on the remaining healthcare workers. Having survived the pandemic and starting to fight back against some of the ground lost with other diseases such as HIV, Tuberculosis and diabetes, healthcare workers are again expected to rise to the challenge of providing health care but with even fewer resources.
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