How well do our rural clinics function?

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Title:	How well do our rural clinics function?
Authors:	Buch, Eric Stephenson, David Evian, Clive
Year:	1984
Issue:	194
Pages:	14
Language:	English
Series:	Carnegie conference paper
City of publisher:	Cape Town
Publisher:	SALDRU, School of Economics, University of Cape Town
ISBN:	0799207128
Geographic terms:	Gazankulu South Africa
Subject:	health centres
Abstract:	A HSDU (Health Services Development Unit, Department of Community Health of Witwatersrand Medical School) paper. In a review of clinic services provided by 10 clinics in the Mhala district of Gazankulu it was found that they do not function at all well because: 1) they do not provide essential care and the care that is provided is not of high quality; 2) poor support from the hospital leads to inadequate referral and supervision, and shortages of drugs and equipment; 3) problems of distance, cost, time and alienation make services inaccesible; 4) workers are not functioning satisfactory as the health care team approach is not practised; 5) the community participation that exists is probably of more harm than good; 6) clinics do not play their part in overcoming the basic causes of ill health.