Johannesburg - The government has agreed how much it will pay private hospitals and medical practitioners to treat severely ill Covid-19 patients if South Africa's public hospitals run out of space, a senior health official told Reuters.
Agreement has been reached on a daily fee of up to R16,000 for Covid-19 patients that get treated in critical care beds in private hospitals, said Anban Pillay, the health ministry's deputy director-general for national health insurance. Now that high-level terms have been agreed with the private sector, health departments in the country's nine provinces will sign "service-level" agreements, Pillay said.A ministry presentation in April put the total at around 3,300, with two-thirds of those in the private sector. Healthcare provider Netcare estimates there are some 6,000 beds, with around 3,800 in private hospitals.
Does the private sector have the capacity suddenly? Where are the funds coming from? Every time I hear of government and money in the same sentence I think corruption
I wonder how much it costs to care for patient in public, either way, good practice run for our NHI. someone needs to dig into this and do a comparison, only way a NHI can function is if we're ultra mean and efficient with costs.
What, we haven't run out of hospital beds? Mid March it was said we will peak in June. Now is June and guess what? They are saying we gonna peak in Sept... WTF Covid_19 Covid_19SA Covid19SA
So there’s treatment for covid now ?
Watch how the number of cases go up now.
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