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Experts warn that South Africa’s National Health Insurance plan will not work 28 May 2021 5:07 PM Share This: Wits School of Governance professor Alex van den Heever says the proposal goes against the principles of the health system. In a webinar hosted by Free Market Foundation, a group of experts have disapproved and warned that the National Health Insurance (NHI) will not be able to deliver improved health outcomes for the majority of citizens and this may damage existing systems put in place. Chairperson in the field of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies a...

The onset of winter and slow roll-out of the vaccine programme also likely to contribute to a third surge says expert.

He said medical personnel often contract Covid-19 while working. “They must self-isolate and are off work for a period even if they do not develop severe illness. That remains a perpetual problem. “This coincides with the period where government chose to freeze posts in many areas of the public health system,” Van den Heever said. He said government reduced the size of the workforce at a time when the country needed a lot of additional nurses and doctors. When asked where officials should focus their efforts on during the second wave of infections, Van den Heever said the use of field...

'No strategy to deal with second wave' - Wits prof 12 January 2021 - 07:39 The Gauteng government does not have reserve strategy to deal with the second wave of Covid-19 infections that has seen some hospitals overwhelmed by rising numbers of patients in need of critical care. This is the view of Prof Alex van den Heever, chair of the Wits School of Governance’s social security systems and management studies. Van den Heever said the modelling the provincial government relied on could never provide a 100% accurate picture but that this shouldn’t take the government by surprise... ...