South Africa: Harnessing Community Agency

"It is unconscionable that your ability to pay should determine whether you live or die," said Associate Professor Lydia Cairncross, the head of the Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences and Groote Schuur Hospital.

An equitable health system organised on the principles of social solidarity and equality is one in which an unemployed health worker from Khayelitsha would have the same access to quality care (including high care and intensive care) as a chief executive officer of a major conglomeration, Associate Professor Cairncross added.

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