Medical Brief 262 - 18 July 2019
JULY 17TH, 2019 A FOCUS, PUBLIC HEALTH
"The ‘reorganisation’ of the national Health Department, an ’embryo’ unit to build capacity, and the ‘backbone’ of a national electronic patient record system that will contain the health details of all citizens by February 2020. These are the first details of the shape of the National Health Insurance scheme, outlined by Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize in his budget vote speech, reports Legalbrief Policy Watch.
Conceding that “it will be impossible to convince the public about the virtues of NHI unless the health infrastructure is rebuilt as a matter of urgent priority”, the minister said a “team of experts in finance and health … infrastructure” has been established “to seek creative financing mechanisms” and “alternative” delivery models."
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