“If NHI does not address these issues, it will just be a big medical aid,” Sama chair Dr Mvuyisi Mzukwa
the South African Medical Association told Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla South African health system is not ready for National Health Insurance , Photo: iStock
Sama chair Dr Mvuyisi Mzukwa said its Limpopo branch had invited the minister and the health department to discuss the branch’s concerns about NHI.“We support the objectives of NHI, but the system is not ready for implementation. There’s a human resources shortage and as a funding model, NHI does not have sufficient funding for staff.”
He said government must first capacitate the department before it could get the funds for the NHI. “Only then can government render the private sector optional, but the system is not ready.” Sama has also tried to stay out of politics and Mzukwa said this was why it had refused to join political parties when they had marched against the NHI.“We told the minister we are not pleased that our South African children, our trainees, cannot be absorbed into the public health system although we have a dire shortage of doctors, but instead push them into the private sector or to leave the country.
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