The SA Medical Association has ‘deliberately’ not partnered with Business Unity South Africa (Busa), and funders in their ongoing negotiations with President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Health Ministry over revising NHI legislation.
The private sector protagonists, of which the SA Private Practitioners Forum (SAPPF) is a part, have put a combined legal challenge of the NHI in abeyance in the hope that the Government of National Unity will amend ‘deeply flawed’ sections of the NHI, as it did with the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill.
SAMA CEO Dr Mzulungile Nodikida told MedicalBrief that the reason for not partnering in the negotiations was that SAMA had a ‘unique position/perspective as the largest representative body of doctors in SA which needed to be ventilated”. ….more
