Phaahla: NHI Bill to be tabled next year

JOHANNESBURG - There's been significant progress on the National Health Insurance Bill, edging South Africans closer to universal healthcare coverage.

That's according to Health Minister Joe Phaahla, who says the Bill will be tabled in the National Assembly next year once it's been finalised.

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"After almost over three years of hard work with breaks due to COVID, our Parliamentary committee has been working very hard in processing the NHI Bill which was tabled in Parliament by my predecessors," he said.

"Where we are now, significant progress has been made. In the coming year, they will be able to finalise it and table it to the full sitting of the National Assembly.

"Of course in our system from the National Assembly it still has to go to the national council of provinces."