Community Health Workers – Spending Review Report
Why PER on Ward Based Primary Health Care Outreach teams: CHWs A health system lacking personnel for delivering the health services in a country is an ailing one, the irony in that is also worth noting. The inefficiencies in South Africa’s health sector personnel continue to hold back health service delivery to the citizens, especially the poor. The World Health Organisation emphasises the importance of community based services delivered through the primary health care platform. The emphasis placed on strengthening primary health care (PHC) is driven by its propensity to reach many people at a local level.
