Universal and free healthcare will help us all in combating the virus, but this policy will also have benefits in the longer term
. This programme encouraged community-based financing, for example establishing revolving drug funds, which in effect meant poor people having to pay for their medicines out of pocket.
These issues are also highly relevant to South Africa’s response to Covid-19 and its long term plans to reform its health sector. After the first Covid-19 case was detected on March 4, the government acted quickly and decisively in implementing aand mobilising a mass testing programme, involving 28 000 community health workers and 67 mobile laboratories. These services were made available to everyone free of charge.
But these successes also have implications for longer-term health-financing policies in South Africa.
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