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The Citizen reports that that at least one business organisation and two medical organisations will still not sign the Presidential Health Compact in Pretoria on Thursday because they are still expected to sign the same document that refers to National Health Insurance (NHI) 25 times.
The second compact follows the 2023 Presidential Health Summit which built on the inaugural summit of 2018 that brought together government, business, labour, civil society, health professionals, unions, service users, statutory councils, academia and researchers to develop sustainable and inclusive solutions to challenges in the national health system. Stakeholders were supposed to sign the compact last week, but Business Unity SA (Busa), the SA Medical Association (SAMA) and the SA Health Professionals Collaboration (SAHPC), which represents about 25,000 doctors, all refused to sign the compact in its current form. They have now been invited to a signing at the Union Buildings on Thursday, but the draft of the compact they received is still the same as the one they received last week. The Presidency also did not contact any of the three organisations to discuss their concerns about how the document tried to entrench the NHI. Cas Coovadia, CEO of Busa, says he feels the same as last week, namely that current version of the compact does not incorporate its views. Dr Mzulungile Nodikida of SAMA also still has the same concerns as last week. Simon Strachan, spokesperson for the SAHPC, indicated that the organisation still felt the same as it did last week that the NHI was not a viable or workable model for achieving universal health coverage.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ina Opperman at The Citizen
- Read too, Independent pharmacists will sign Health Compact, at The Citizen
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