PRIVATE HEALTHCARE WILL CONTINUE FOR A LONG TIME

PRIVATE healthcare will continue playing a significant role for many more years to come and the government should tap into the industry’s skills and expertise in the National Health Insurance (NHI) process, South Africa’s largest health administration and medical risk management solutions provider AfroCentric Group said yesterday. While it supported affordable health care for all, the NHI Bill was still vague and implementation details, particularly funding, were still uncertain, it said. The group, which owns health companies such as Medscheme, medicines distributor Pharmacy Direct, drug manufacturer Activo and several other health-related companies, said it hoped that sanity would prevail for a collaborative approach. | African News Agency (ANA)