LETTER: Dangerous fools may end up running the NHI
Then things could go dangerously wrong in our public hospitals
Further to the letter by Dr Lwazi Manzi of the department of health (“NHI funding can work (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-01-09-letter-nhi-funding-can-work/)”, January 10) assuring us of a well-run National Health Insurance (NHI), I thought the following case gives a different perspective of how the NHI will likely be run.
A doctor narrates how a colleague running a top-class surgery unit at a public hospital required a highly specialised but essential drill (to carefully drill near the brain). The doctor approached the board for the funds only to be told, with presumably quite straight faces, that the doctor could buy a much cheaper drill at a local hardware store...
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