News Health in 2020: Eight major questions facing SABetween President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ongoing new dawn and important healthcare reforms, 2020 will be a critically important year for healthcare in South Africa. Mediosa (previously known as Cureva) supplied the North West health department with mobile clinics and was allegedly irregularly paid R30 million upfront. The health department had by early 2019 enrolled over 26 million people on its new Health Patient Registration System (HPRS) – a number that is no doubt much higher today. Will 2020 be the year that the health department finally integrates all these systems in a way that works for both patients and healthcare workers? On the one hand, we need to train more healthcare workers, and on the other, we need to retain the healthcare workers we do have.

Source: News 24 January 14, 2020 19:30 UTC