The cost of ignoring SA’s dying people
The private sector, meanwhile, could save R571 million per year by using globally recommended home-based care, said Dr Ewa Skowronska, CEO of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of SA , in her opening speech to a palliative care conference held at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town.
She said that between 93% and 95% of hospice patients were cared for at home, which was the most cost-effective way of providing beds in the healthcare system, with the HPCA last year contributing 23 965 additional beds to it.
A conference workshop had revealed that the Western Cape has the most advanced palliative care systems, but with just 16% of South Africa’s population having access to private healthcare funds, the incipient National Health Insurance scheme would need leveraging to streamline palliative care. “It aggravated the demand for healthcare and our NCD burden, while we’re already facing a climate change-induced crisis of diseases – all of which make the need for palliative care a priority, not to mention a basic human right,” he asserted.
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