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Flavia Senkubuge Quotes

1978–1979 South Africa

Flavia Senkubuge (born 1978 or 1979) is a South African physician, professor of public health medicine, an advocate of global public health and the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.

South Africa
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As part of the de-colonisation project, we need to deliver health care to where people are, such that they don’t have to travel long distances to access health care.

Our core values have dramatically changed to kindness and compassion. In the past these values were not even remotely possible but because of women being part of the leadership team, these values are now a cornerstone.

If I look at my own country South Africa, we inherited a health system that was really inequitable and in a sense, although we are doing excellent work in some sectors, we are grappling with the injustices of the past.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Flavia Senkubuge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.