The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa
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Since its inception, COHSASA has focused on providing South African solutions for South African problems. This has resulted in the development of facilitated accreditation programmes for South African healthcare facilities that enable specific identification of areas of strength and deficiency. Through a process of ongoing training, monitoring and evaluation, skills transfer to local staff enables facilities to become accredited as centres of excellence for healthcare provision.
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