Free State Health Crisis needs urgent national intervention - By Mark Heywood, Director of the AIDS Law Project
Last week the great and good of the South African private health industry and the national Health Department gathered for four days at Sun City to deliberate on the future of health care and the proposed system of National Health Insurance (NHI). They started their conference with a golf day and ended with a banquet, dress: ‘black tie or traditional’. Whilst the pro- and not-so-sure NHI’ers differed on the conference floor, they mixed easily on the dance floor.
Intense debates about the future health system took place, with much sound and fury about equality in access to health care services. But, an unfolding health crisis in the Free State was neither noticed nor discussed.  
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