The organisations and persons that attended the dialogue are listed below:
•    National Department of Health
•    Health and Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (HOSPERSA);
•    Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA);
•    Statistics South Africa;
•    Section27;
•    Commission for Gender Equality;
•    Rural Health Advocacy Project;
•    North West Provincial Department of Health;
•    Free State Provincial Department of Health;
•    MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo from the KZN Provincial Department of Health;  
•    Workers World;
•    Democracy Works;
•    Freedom of Expression Institute;
•    South African Human Rights Commission;
•    Nelson Mandela Foundation;
•    National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU).

These wide-ranging stakeholders contributed to the following commitments arising from the national dialogue:
•    We affirm the right to protest at health care facilities;
•    We affirm the right of access to health care;
•    We commit to exploring how protest action at healthcare facilities can protect and develop healthcare rights;
•    We further commit to a continuing process which will include engagement at the highest and the lowest levels of the public health sector; and  
•    We support the formalisation of a Minimum Service Level Agreement for the sector.


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