NHI work founders on slow spending

04 November 2015 - 02:09
By Katharine Child

The Department of Health spent only 21% of a conditional grant for National Health Insurance pilot districts. Last week the parliamentary portfolio committee on health, discussing how the Department of Health had spent its budget in the 2014-2015 financial year, said it spent 83% of a R76- million grant aimed at improving medicine supply and providing primary health care.

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