Zithulele in print
Zithulele Hospital has been featured in a number of different publications over the years. You can follow the links below to find out some more of our stories.
They are listed chronologically below, but the highlight was a feature article on our multidisciplinary team in the Lancet in 2009. So don’t miss this one! Rural Hospital beats the odds in South Africa.
2012
The year has started with profiles of two of our doctors. Dr Thembinkosi Motlhabane was profiled in the Mail & Guardian (read it here) and Dr Liz Gatley in the South African Medical Journal (read it here).
2011
Towards the end of the year the Mail & Guardian newspaper ran a series of articles inspired by Zithulele. They profiled our exclusive breastfeeding policy, as well as illustrating the challenges of access, poverty, and the scourge of women being abducted.
Dr Elizabeth Gatley was named provincial rural doctor of the year at the 2011 RuDASA Rural Health Conference held in Rhodes Village. The Times newspaper picked up the story, which you can read here, as did the Medical Chronicle, which you can read here.
A Place of Quiet Faith. This article in the Winter 2011 of Discovery Magazine (the quarterly publication of South Africa's largest medical aid with over 1m principal members) followed our receipt of a Rural Institutional Award in 2010. Read the article here.
The topic for the February CME journal was Rural Medicine and they used a photo of ours they had in stock, giving it the exciting caption: "Part of the Wild Coast patient catchment area for Zithulele...whose dedicated team have turned it into a widely acknowledged - but unofficial - best rural practice model." Download the screenshot here, or access the full editorial at here.
Karen Galloway recently wrote an article on rural rehabilitation for the physiotherapy magazine Hands On. She asks if everyone is really "designed to be an urban physiotherapist." You can download the article here.
2010
Are we winning? Improving perinatal outcomes at a deeply rural district hospital. This was Ben Gaunt’s first academic paper, published in the South African Medical Journal in February 2010. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/3699/2682
2009
The Lancet article, referred to above, was published in 2009. It was a real honour to profiled in one of the world's leading medical journals!
2008
Multi-disciplinary teams the rural way forward. This feature article was published in the South African Medical Journal in January 2008. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/3699/2682
2007
Doctors in the sticks. This was an article published in UCT News magazine in December 2007. To read it you have to download the whole publication (2.4MB), which you can do so here: www.uct.ac.za/downloads/news.uct.ac.za/.../uctnews_2007.pdf
They are listed chronologically below, but the highlight was a feature article on our multidisciplinary team in the Lancet in 2009. So don’t miss this one! Rural Hospital beats the odds in South Africa.
2012
The year has started with profiles of two of our doctors. Dr Thembinkosi Motlhabane was profiled in the Mail & Guardian (read it here) and Dr Liz Gatley in the South African Medical Journal (read it here).
2011
Towards the end of the year the Mail & Guardian newspaper ran a series of articles inspired by Zithulele. They profiled our exclusive breastfeeding policy, as well as illustrating the challenges of access, poverty, and the scourge of women being abducted.
Dr Elizabeth Gatley was named provincial rural doctor of the year at the 2011 RuDASA Rural Health Conference held in Rhodes Village. The Times newspaper picked up the story, which you can read here, as did the Medical Chronicle, which you can read here.
A Place of Quiet Faith. This article in the Winter 2011 of Discovery Magazine (the quarterly publication of South Africa's largest medical aid with over 1m principal members) followed our receipt of a Rural Institutional Award in 2010. Read the article here.
The topic for the February CME journal was Rural Medicine and they used a photo of ours they had in stock, giving it the exciting caption: "Part of the Wild Coast patient catchment area for Zithulele...whose dedicated team have turned it into a widely acknowledged - but unofficial - best rural practice model." Download the screenshot here, or access the full editorial at here.
Karen Galloway recently wrote an article on rural rehabilitation for the physiotherapy magazine Hands On. She asks if everyone is really "designed to be an urban physiotherapist." You can download the article here.
2010
Are we winning? Improving perinatal outcomes at a deeply rural district hospital. This was Ben Gaunt’s first academic paper, published in the South African Medical Journal in February 2010. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/3699/2682
2009
The Lancet article, referred to above, was published in 2009. It was a real honour to profiled in one of the world's leading medical journals!
2008
Multi-disciplinary teams the rural way forward. This feature article was published in the South African Medical Journal in January 2008. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/3699/2682
2007
Doctors in the sticks. This was an article published in UCT News magazine in December 2007. To read it you have to download the whole publication (2.4MB), which you can do so here: www.uct.ac.za/downloads/news.uct.ac.za/.../uctnews_2007.pdf
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