Ebrahim Harvey | Public healthcare's decline vs NHI's promises
President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC are using the NHI Act to mobilise dwindling mass support in the election, writes the author.
The timing of the passage of the NHI Act was very clearly politically motivated, while neglecting to attend to some crucially important matters, such as feasible funding mechanisms and its implications for healthcare, taxation and the economy, arguesThe right to public healthcare is a very important provision in the Bill of Rights , in the 1996 Constitution of South Africa.
In fact, conditions in our public hospitals, which the vast majority of the population use, are today a most shocking disgrace. Those conditions have considerably worsened over the past decade, to the extent where we have had many media reports of a lack of medicines, food, beds, linen, equipment, doctors and other staff for several years.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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