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Breaking News

EC Health Department ‘drowning in debt’

The Eastern Cape health department’s financial position remains precarious at best, with suppliers owed an estimated R4.8bn, reported Daily Maverick (28 March 2024).

Only 270 out of 800 unemployed doctors placed

“Out of the 800 unemployed doctors who recently petitioned the National Department of Health for jobs, just 270 have been appointed across the country, despite promises that funding would be made available,” reported MedicalBrief (28 March 2024).

Health professionals’ discontent shows in decreasing SAMA membership

Ken Boffard, the retiring president of South African Medical Association (SAMA), raised his concerns about the increasing number of SA doctors leaving the country, wrote Chris Bateman in Financial Mail (28 March 2024)

Increased tension between medical schemes and CMS

The tension between the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) and the medical scheme industry, is building up, reported Business Day (26 March 2024P). This follows the CMS’s taking legal action to place Netcare Medical Scheme under curatorship.


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