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AN CHETTY

board of this hospital and headed up the Ethics
Committee,” he said.
Professor Chetty is a member of the International
Society of Quality Assurance (ISQUA) based in
Dubai.
He serves on two committee Partnering with
Patients and Promoting Quality on the African
Continent
Other national duties:
*Appointed out the NHI task team on implementing
the pilot sites.
*Serves on the committee as development of
quality and safety standards for hospital and
facilities.
* Serves as chairperson at the office of health
standards compliance. This task is to set standards
for doctor practices.

He has also hosted conferences on:
Patient/ person centered care, Patient's rights,
Quality in health care, Value based health care,
Heath policy reform and re-engineering health care,
Poverty and its impact on patient's access to health
care, Latest conference 2017 – Theme: Healthcare
is a national matter.

Are we doing enough to secure the future health of
South Africa?“My vision for the future is to promote
the patients confidentiality. To care for and
accommodate the needs of the poor.

Promote the need to improve the narrative we have
with our patients- listen to our patients. Reinforce
the need to position primary care as
the central aspect of health care in a 3rd world
country with financial constraints and with
millions without health care and Invited the medical
profession to promote integrated health care,” said
Professor Chetty.

In KwaZulu-Natal, he has successfully run 21
conferences focusing as: Health care challenges,
Patient's rights, Quality and care management
and Health care re-engineering.

“My belief is we need a vision to shape the
present and influence the future health of our
nation. We can shape the future from our
experiences and lessons of the past<” said
Professor Chetty.