Since 2015, the EPP has been warning about the need to take measures to strengthen the public health sector to make it the backbone of the system, but has been speaking in the ears of the unhearing, the social democratic party said in a statement.
The Auditor General's report on OHCHR confirms, as stated, concerns about the risk of unsustainability of the public health sector as a result of the following:
1. From 2017, if not earlier, until the start of the GHS, there has not been any upgrading of the public sector to make it administratively, scientifically and financially self-sufficient
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2. The appointment of Mr. Nicholson was a wrong choice that created problems in the functioning of the public sector since in the time left he did nothing to promote the above objectives.
3. Understaffing of medical personnel and lack of equipment reduced patient accessibility with the introduction of the GHS resulting in reduced revenue.
4. For a long time there was an inability to properly price the services it provided resulting in limited revenue.
"Since 2015, the EPP has been warning about the need to take measures to strengthen the public health sector to make it the backbone of the system but has been speaking in the ears of the unhearing. It is now obvious that some people who had the political responsibility for the reorganisation of public hospitals did not have this as their goal, but to create conditions for future privatisation of the public health sector," he concludes.
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