Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the High Court ruling declaring parts of the National Healthcare Act unconstitutional is “deeply concerning” – but insists it has nothing to do with the NHI.
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described the latest High Court ruling declaring sections of the National Health Act unconstitutional as “deeply concerning” – while calling any attempts to relate it to the National Health Insurance Act “propaganda”.The sections relate to the highly contested “Certificate of Need”, which the National Department of Health wants to adopt to exert more control over where doctors and medical professionals can practice in the country.
According to union Solidarity, which brought the case against the laws, the ruling in its favour dealt a significant blow to what it said was a central pillar of the entire NHI concept—the centralisation of power in the healthcare sector and what it called the nationalisation of private healthcare. “We have been inundated with calls and enquiries from concerned people who were made to believe that indeed NHI has been declared unconstitutional by a Court of Law.
“It is pure mischief to assert a connection and is a part of the deliberate campaign to discredit the NHI,” he said. The minister has characterised the latest court ruling as the High Court choosing to protect property rights over healthcare rights.
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