The constitutional right to access health care is not a reality for many, with health-system reforms urgently needed to see this realised.
This was said this week at the virtual launch of a new research report by Concentric Alliance and Section27 on health reform.
During 2020, Concentric Alliance and Section27 interviewed 33 representatives from the national and provincial health departments, health regulators, medical schemes, healthcare workers, trade unions, private hospital groups, public health academia, health civil society organisations, the pharmaceutical industry and the government.
The report found that health-system reform efforts appear to have stagnated, with dire consequences.
Section27’s head of health, Sasha Stevenson, said: “We have real stagnation of health-reform efforts while we’re waiting on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill.
“The NHI Bill has been a topic of…