Economic Policy Seminar

Title: Economic Policy Seminar
Creator: NACTU
Subject: NACTU
Date Issued: July 1990
Date: July 1990
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138635
Identifier: vital:37658
Description: This department decided to retain the current 1990/1 budget figure of R7bn for curative health and administration costs. A further R2.1bn was proposed for preventative health care. The total health budget is therefore R9.1bn. Primary Health Care (PHC) will be an addition to the health budget. The PHC addition is R1.4bn, which will cover training of PHC workers; the cost of purchasing the ten identified common medicines and drugs that will be mass produced and the cost of setting up informal rural clinics. A further addition to the health budget is the setting up and equiping local Rehabilitation Centres (RC). R0.7bn is allocated for these centres. Speech therapy, physiotherapy and such medical science disciplines will be located at the local RC so as to ease the pressure on hosipitals. The setting up Industrial Hosipitals (IH) which will be located in the industrial areas will be assisted by the health department. The IH must be viewed as an alternative to "medical aid", that workers are increasingly demanding in collective bargaining. Instead IH would be set up in industrial areas serving the factories in those areas. These IH will controlled by workers and management with the health department playing only an advisory and inspectionary role.
Format: 15 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
Language: English
Rights: National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
Rights: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher

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