## Recent  

**2022**: RuDASA alarms Zithulele Hospital crisis, urges Health Department to sustain rural healthcare support.

**2021 (December)**: RuDASA criticizes Health Department's quarantine guideline withdrawal, urges swift reversal
    for healthcare service safeguarding.

**2021 (December)**: RuDASA worries over COVID-19 isolation rules, urges guideline review amid Omicron-driven
    staff shortages.

**2021 (June)**: RuDASA suggests universal vaccine days for rural areas, aiming to immunize entire communities
    in one day, reducing transport costs and improving accessibility.

**2020**: RuDASA pushes for rural hospital oxygen upgrade amid COVID-19, stressing supplies, monitoring, and
    High Flow Nasal Oxygen.

**2019**: RuDASA seeks support for North West Province doctors, advocating for resource addressing and Prof
    Ebrahim Variava's reinstatement.

## Older

**2016**: Rural-proofing the overtime policy for health care practitioners in Eastern Cape.

**2012**: Rural-proofing the National Health Insurance.

**2011**: RuDASA contributed to the development of a comprehensive set of objectives and activities 
          aimed at enhancing access to human resources in rural health, adopted as official policy by 
          the Department of Health - Strategic Priority 8 of the new National Human Resources for Health
          Strategy.

**2011**: Rural-proofing the Primary Health Care Revitalisation Strategy.

**2011**: Letter to the Minister of Health: Proposal for key measures to address the crisis in human 
          resources for health in South Africa, with a focus on rural health care.

**2011**: RuDASA and RHAP join SAMA’s demands for urgent safety measures to protect our health care 
          workers from assault.

**2010**: Press Release: Rural communities disadvantaged by KZN Community Service Medical Officer 
          placements for 2010.

**2010**: Letter to KZN Treasury and Department of Health: Freezing of posts is against the spirit of the ten-point-plan.

**2010**: RuDASA statement on public sector strike.

**2010**: Open letter to the President: shadow a rural doctor for a day.

**2009**: Press Release: The government''s OSD proposal is anti-rural.

Press Statements