Parliament’s portfolio committee on health will only consider how to manage the vast volume of written submissions it has received in response to the national health insurance (NHI) bill in February, its chair, Sibongiseni Dhlomo, said on Monday.

At issue is whether MPs scrutinise each of the hundreds of thousands of submissions themselves or outsource some of the work to a third party.‘..

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