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A Rural Health Conference
HST & DoH
2004-09-06

The Department of Health, in partnership with the Health Systems Trust are hosting a rural health conference. The conference will be held at the Ocean Conference Centre in Durban from 21 - 23 September 2004

The theme of the conference is: Towards Better Rural Health Care.

The objectives of the conference are:

• To showcase the achievements in strengthening service delivery in the 13 rural nodes
• To Share lessons and best practices
• To share the experiences of the progress made in the rural nodes
• To identify major areas of concern and develop strategies to correct those and mechanisms to strengthen the delivery of PHC and
• To endorse the Rural health strategy.

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