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Recovery and transforming the South African health system

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Y Pillay, I Sanne, T Carter, R Narwal, P Chituku, R Naidoo, D Moonasar, R Morewane

Abstract


The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods globally and in South Africa (SA). The SA government has been lauded for its swift response to the pandemic, in March 2020 and subsequently. Many routinely provided health services were severely disrupted and there is an urgent need to recover to 2019 levels at least. In this paper, the lessons from the COVID-19 response are discussed and proposals for transformation of the SA health system are considered.


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Y Pillay, Division of Public Health and Health Systems, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

I Sanne, Clinical HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

T Carter, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Pretoria, South Africa

R Narwal, World Health Organization, Pretoria, South Africa

P Chituku, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Pretoria, South Africa

R Naidoo, South African National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

D Moonasar, South African National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

R Morewane, South African National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

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South African Medical Journal 2022;112(5b):384.

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Date submitted: 2022-05-31
Date published: 2022-05-31

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