Gauteng Premier downplays NHI problems
28 August 2019
Gauteng Premier David Makhura continues to downplay obvious problems with the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) that could badly affect health care in the province.
He claimed yesterday in an oral reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature that there was “no reason to say that the NHI will not be run efficiently”.
This is despite the example I put to him of badly run state owned enterprises like Eskom, and corruption-afflicted entities like the Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) run by his own provincial government.
It is proposed under the NHI that Gauteng’s four central hospitals (Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg, Chris Hani Baragwanath, Steve Biko and George Mukhari) will be taken over by the National Health Department.