Collaborative push to address TB crisis on mines.

In March last year Churchyard helped facilitate a pivotal petition appealing for urgent intervention to address TB on the mines to then national health minister Barbara Hogan and the Minister of Minerals and Energy Affairs, Buyelwa Sonjica. It was signed by the leading local and international TB control experts and led, he said, to the mining industry taking ‘great offence’. The health policy committee of the Chamber of Mines in fact accepted the criticisms in the letter but noted that this COLLABORATIVE PUSH TO ADDRESS TB CRISIS ON MINES