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ANA reports that according to the Health and Other Services Personnel Trade Union of SA (Hospersa), serious shortcomings in the SA health system were putting workers in the health sector at great risk.
Commemorating World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on Sunday, Hospersa called for greater commitment to the health and safety of health workers. World TB Day was intended to raise awareness about the disease and this year’s theme, as announced by the World Health Organisation (WHO), was “It’s time”. Hospersa spokesman Kevin Halama said: “It is high time that TB prevention takes priority. It is also high time that the South African government addresses the occupational health and safety (OHS) shortcomings in public health facilities which continue to result in the high prevalence of TB among health care workers.” He went on to indicate: “The health care profession is losing many qualified professionals at an alarming rate, as many health care workers fear the high occupational risks, and those who contract TB contract multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and TB outside of the lungs, which is currently not compensated.” In 2016, the WHO reported that SA had the second highest TB incidence among health care workers in the world.
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