Medical Crisis South Africa - ratings downgrade impact

Medical Crisis South Africa - ratings downgrade impact #MedicalCrisis #SouthAfrica #TNHA - 19 June 2017 As long as key policy makers in the Department of Health remain traditional and natural health care denialists, the national healthcare system will come crashing down. Over the past century, great progress has been made in the field of human health. Despite this, today's most common diseases continue in epidemic proportions. Last year we saw cardiovascular disease and cancer reach the top five list of causes of death in SA, demonstrating that the prevalence of non-communicable, preventable, diseases of lifestyle are rising sharply. These diseases are the most costly to treat with drugs, radiation and surgery. Human health is being held hostage on a global scale by the status quo – at its center, the pharmaceutical investment industry that has defined wide-spread diseases as its target market and which thrives on their continuation. The status quo has now declared an economi...