People’s Health Movement condemns arrest of community health workers
Oscar
Thomas
13 July 2014
“The People’s Health
Movement demands the immediate release of all the arrested community health workers,
the dropping of all charges against them, and immediate payment of all outstanding
moneys owed to them Reynolds added.
13 July 2014
The people’s health movement
condemns the arrest of over 100 community health workers and Treatment Campaign
activists in the Free State on Wednesday at the instigation of the MEC for
health while they were staging a peaceful protest about their poor conditions
of service after not having been paid for 2 months.
The Foundations of both good
health and good health care lie in the community. They state that this simple
fact is one of the fundamental principles of the Primary Health Care approach.
Chairperson of People’s
Health Movement Louis Reynolds said at a basic level they provide essential
home-based care to people with chronic health problems.
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