As president Cyril Ramaphosa continues to look for his missing pen to sign the NHI into law, the National Health Department has another massive hole to plug.
The National Department of Health has paid around R24 billion in medical-legal claims over the last four years, once again bringing into question the affordability of the impending National Health Insurance scheme.
Citing the Auditor General of South Africa, Clarke said that these claims are already significantly taking away from the government’s provision of health services in the country, and the figures are being exacerbated by fraud, incompetence, and the lack of an electronic case management system across the provinces.
The DA MP noted further that the escalation in claims is happening alongside a reduction in health budgets for the provinces, where provincial national health insurance grants were lowered by R239 billion.
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