Health Minister wants more preventative healthcare cover
And he wants the National health Insurance fund to allow quality healthcare for all South Africans, as 84% are currently reliant on parlous public healthcare
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi wants the law to be changed to allow the health department to deal with problems before they occur‚ rather than dealing with them when the damage has already been done."We want to make laws that help us deal with problems before they happen. Currently‚ the law says you must deal with issues when they happen‚" Motsoaledi said during an interview on Radio 702 on Friday.He said the department was faced with problems at a provincial level. The issues were in areas of human resources‚ financial management and procurement. "At a national level, you develop norms and standards, and implementation is at a provincial level. We are proposing amendments to change that."Commenting on the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) fund‚ he said his intention was to facilitate good quality healthcare for all South Africans."We have two healthcare systems in the country. One is the private healthcare system, which caters for 16% of the population’ and the other one i...
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