Riyaz Patel
President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched the Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum aimed at ensuring, among other things, that the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, currently before Parliament, is shielded from corrupt practices.
The initiative is a collaboration between various stakeholders to combat fraud and corruption in the health sector.
Ramaphosa said he got a rude awakening during campaigning for the recent elections when he became aware of the billions of rands that were allocated to health services were being siphoned off by fraudsters.
“It pained me that access to health had been impacted by corruption, some pay above the official rate for free services. Moonlighting nurses neglect patients and vehicles are hired out or sold,” he said.
“This about reducing wastage and excess. We cannot achieve these objectives for as long as corruption persists.”
Stakeholders signed a pact at the Union Buildings in Pretoria which outlined the terms of
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