<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PHM Global Secretariat</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<br><br><div dir="ltr">Over the last few months, following many reports of the deterioration
in the quality of health care services in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, the
signatories to the Campaign memorandum have been involved in consultations with
health care workers and health care users across the Eastern Cape. The
consultations have revealed serious problems in the system. Some of
these problems are not new and have been the subject of correspondence
from the signatories to this memorandum to the Eastern Cape Department
of Health over a number of years.<div>
<p><a href="http://echealthcrisis.org/" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0000ff">CLICK HERE</font></b></a><b><font color="#0000ff"> </font></b>to be referred to the campaign website</p><p>In response to the range of problems that we have witnessed, the
Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition was established. It is a
coalition of organisations with an interest in the improvement of the
health care system in the Eastern Cape. The members of the Coalition are
as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)</li>
<li>Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP)</li>
<li>Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA)</li>
<li>South African Medical Association (SAMA)</li>
<li>Rural Doctors Association of South Africa (RuDASA)</li>
<li>Junior Doctors Association of South Africa (JuDASA)</li>
<li>Rural Rehabilitation South Africa (RuReSA)</li>
<li>Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)</li>
<li>Democracy from Below</li>
<li>SECTION27</li>
<li>Professional Association of Clinical Associates in South Africa (PACASA)</li>
<li>People’s Health Movement (PHM)</li>
<li>Igazi Foundation</li>
</ul></div><div><p>The constitutional rights of health care service users and staff to
access to health care services, dignity and life are being violated. The
rights of patients under the National Health Act 51 of 2003 are being
undermined, and the obligations both in that Act and in numerous
policies of the national and provincial departments of health are being
breached. Failure by the Eastern Cape Department of Health to attend to
these serious problems in the health care system is unlawful and
contrary to its constitutional and legislative obligations.</p>
<p>The problems identified require urgent attention. They call on
the MEC to develop a plan with clear timeframes that includes components
that address the items listed urgently to remedy the crisis in health
in the Eastern Cape. They demand a response from the MEC to this memo,
including the plan referred to above, by <b>11 October 2013</b>.</p></div><div>--<br>Global Secretariat<br>People's Health Movement (PHM)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a><br>
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