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Three Years On: Has our Healthcare system recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic?


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Guest: Prof. Heidi van Rooyen - Group Executive of the Impact Centre at the HSRC

Three Years On: Has our Healthcare system recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? Focus: South Africans woke up under a hard lockdown after Level 5 restrictions kicked in at midnight in the last week of March 2020. President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement a few days before the lockdown, after consultation with leaders of political parties and the National Coronavirus Command Council. A National State of Disaster was declared in response to the outbreak of the Corona virus. While lockdown restrictions were dropped over a year ago, the Healthcare system still faces challenges in bridging the gap on access to quality health services. To help us unpack where we are rebuilding our health system, we are joined by... 

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