06/10/2025
Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine - South Africa (HCW4P-SA) welcomes and salutes the South African Medical Association (SAMA) for its formal suspension of all relations with the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), and its call for the suspension of the IMA from the World Medical Association (WMA). The precedent set by this action is significant and demonstrates tremendous integrity, moral courage and genuine transformation from South Africa’s legacy of Apartheid. HCW4P-SA calls on healthcare and academic institutions in South Africa and around the world to study and follow SAMA’s lead in issuing their own statements and suspending relations with their Israeli counterparts.