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'Reform is needed in SA's public and private health systems' - SECTION27
Wasanga Mehana spoke to SECTION27 health rights programme head Sasha Stevenson about the state of the South African healthcare sector.
The department addressed the media on Wednesday morning regarding a forensic investigation and a probe by the Special Investigating Unit looking into a contract worth R150 million.
Low-income populations bear a disproportionately higher burden of poor health.
Numerous residents in Gauteng have gathered at the Dlamini Multipurpose Hall in Soweto to express their views on the NHI bill.
The committee is currently conducting public hearings on the NHI Bill at the Dlamini multi-purpose hall in Soweto for its final leg of submissions.
The challenge for South Africans is to assess everything and anything on its merits. It is to understand that things are seldom black and white, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
The NHI is the financing system that seeks to provide quality universal health care services to all South Africans to create an equal society.
After listening to a battery of complaints, Parliament’s portfolio committee on Health will now take the debate on National Health Insurance (NHI) to coastal provinces.
The hearings got under way in the Northern Cape.
In collaboration with the Special Investigating Unit, the platform was launched on Tuesday, with the aim of detecting and prosecuting fraud and corruption in the health sector.
Following the ANC's special NEC meeting over the weekend, ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and other senior ANC members announced the decisions taken on the NHI and other issues.
The union hosted a media briefing in Durban earlier on Tuesday where it announced that it was mobilising its allies in defence of the NHI, which was facing opposition from private sector companies and opposition parties.
Parliament’s Health Portfolio Committee chair Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo received the report of the health market inquiry into the private sector which was released on Monday.
In a statement released on Sunday, the party said it would approach National Assembly Chair of Chairs Cedric Frolick to budget and plan for public hearings.
South Africa's planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It's deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
The Health Minister sent the Bill to parliament this month. It seeks to equalise the levels of care that South Africans can access whether they are well off or poor.
By Dr Jack.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize yesterday released the bill, which is aimed at ensuring universal health coverage for all South Africans.
The long-awaited bill, which is aimed at ensuring that all South Africans receive universal health coverage, was released by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Thursday.