Cardiologists express distress at state’s NHI
The South African heart congress hears concerns about mismanagement, but the government says the only enemy is ill health
16 November 2023 - 05:01
With the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill due to become law next month, the question of trust in the government’s ability to run such a scheme was raised at the South African heart congress last month.
Darryl Smith, a cardiologist at Linksfield Clinic who works sessions at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, called it “an elephant in the room”...
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