The NHI was the centre of the presidential health summit. Now the pressure is mounting for Treasury to figure out how to fund it.
NEWS ANALYSIS
The health system is in crisis, government officials admit. Now, they have just weeks to produce an initial plan on how to fix it ahead of introducing a National Health Insurance (NHI), Deputy President David Mabuza revealed this weekend.
With its namesake, President Cyril Ramaphosa was absent from the presidential health summit. The gathering drew more than 100 representatives from civil society, government, unions, academia and the private sector. Prior to the event, that was held in Boksburg, each delegate received a 21-page concept note outlining challenges within the health system — this included corruption and how the NHI will incorporate the private sector.
Solutions proposed during the meeting will now form the basis for wider consultation ahead of a public plan to turn the health system.
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