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PRESENTATION: PORTFOLIO COMMITTEES ON CORRECTIONAL SERVICES AND HEALTH

This presentation highlights challenges faced by the Department of Correctional Services in providing healthcare to inmates, discussing key areas of assistance and proposing recommendations for improvement. The need for collaborative efforts and decision-making at various levels is emphasized.

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PRESENTATION: PORTFOLIO COMMITTEES ON CORRECTIONAL SERVICES AND HEALTH

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  1. PRESENTATION: PORTFOLIO COMMITTEES ON CORRECTIONAL SERVICES AND HEALTH PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE WITHIN CORRECTIONAL CENTRES

  2. CONTENT • Introduction • Background • Discussion • Areas of assistance • Way forward • Conclusion

  3. INTRODUCTION The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has been faced with numerous challenges in the provision of health care services to the inmates and several meetings have been held with the Department of Health (DoH) at various levels and National Treasury to try and resolve this issues. Several presentations were made to the different Parliamentary structures in the past years and the challenges remain the same.

  4. BACKGROUND • During the last presentation on the health care delivery in DCS to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services the following summary of major challenges were highlighted: • Legislation impact on DCS; • The delivery of programmes and services; • Health human resources; • Infrastructure; • Target population; • Health information system; • Transport.

  5. BACKGROUND • Subsequent to the presentation, the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services requested that the Department of Correctional Services and Department of Health should meet and discuss the financial responsibility for the provision of health care services to the inmate population • A meeting was thereafter held between the Acting Commissioner and the Acting DG of Health • The basis of the discussion was on the challenges the DCS is faced with in the provision of health care services to the inmates and the following identified areas of assistance required from the DoH

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  11. WAY FORWARD The meeting concluded by coming with the following recommendations: • Establishment of a task team comprising of DCS, DoH and South African Military Health Services to conduct an audit of the current status of health services in DCS and identify challenges per province Options that may be looked at are: • Whether current health care system in DCS could be strengthened with support of DoH • Take over of health care delivery in DCS by DoH • South African Military Health Services could be contracted by DCS to render health care services • Contracting delivery of health care services to private sector

  12. CONCLUSION • To improve the quality and outcome of health care delivery in the DCS, there is a need for a high level decision making at political level with regard to the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Health at all levels on Correctional Health Services

  13. Together doing more & better to break the cycle of crime

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