ICUs worldwide: An overview of critical care medicine in South Africa
AUTOR(ES)
Mathivha, L Rudo
FONTE
BioMed Central
RESUMO
South Africa has undergone rapid changes in the political and social arenas since 1994. With new policy-makers in the Department of Health, the distribution of health care resources are being rationalised and redirected to benefit the majority of the previously disadvantaged population of the country. The role and rationalisation of intensive care medicine has to be re-evaluated to ascertain that it is at a level appropriate for a developing country. Despite progress made, the subspecialty of intensive care medicine faces challenges from changing disease patterns and from lack of human and financial resources as these are redirected to primary health care and other priorities facing the country.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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