_Prior to the arrival of the internet, living in a rural setting really meant that you had to forge ahead alone, or if you were lucky with a friend on the end of a phone to advise you. But in this time in South Africa, there is cellphone cover and as a result, internet cover, in almost every area of the country. This means that the internet can be a supportive resource and reduce the professional isolation that used to be the lot of the rural rehab worker! Hopefully now all the wisdom gained through experience can now be shared and not lost.

This website aims to be a useful resource to people in rural settings. We also hope that with support in this small way, that people could be encouraged to stay long term in rural settings, and as a result that rural rehabilitation can become a chosen speciality for health professionals.

The information on this site is to make life easier for a rural rehabilitation worker.
Here are some things you can find here:

• a map and contact details of rural hospitals
• paper resources that you can download and print out for the easy running of your department
• contact details of people who will support you in your work
• ideas for getting more community involvement in rehab issues
• documents that you can use to motivate for improving our rehab services in SA

Please feel free to send feedback and information that might help this site to be more useful.

RuReSA is a newly formed interest group for rehabiltiation professionals who have an interest in Rehabilitation in rural places. We believe that rural work can be inspiring and fun, and with a little support we can achieve great things.

As it is in its infancy membership is free until March 2012. We subscribe to a Google group, by which we share information and news, and also will be participating in a conference (in association with RuDASA) in September 2012.

Please apply to  join by completing the form below and emailing it to dart (at) sai.co.za we will then contact you and instruct you how to join our google group.

We would love feedback about this site.

Please contact us at
kari7700(at)yahoo.com
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