Beyond Financing: What Botswana’s Medicines Crisis Is Trying to Tell Us About Duma Care
Sunday Standard Beyond Financing: What Botswana’s Medicines Crisis Is Trying to Tell Us About Duma Care A few weeks ago, I argued that Botswana’s proposed National Health Insurance reforms under what I have termed Duma Care should not be reduced to a financing conversation alone. The issue, I suggested then, was bigger than insurance itself. It was about whether the health system underneath the reform is organised well enough to carry […] The post Beyond Financing: What Botswana’s Medicines Crisis Is Trying to Tell Us About Duma Care first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Thabo Seleke
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Beyond Financing: What Botswana’s Medicines Crisis Is Trying to Tell Us About Duma Care
A few weeks ago, I argued that Botswana’s proposed National Health Insurance reforms under what I have termed Duma Care should not be reduced to a financing conversation alone. The issue, I suggested then, was bigger than insurance itself. It was about whether the health system underneath the reform is organised well enough to carry such a transition over time.
Recent developments around Central Medical Stores (CMS) have pushed that conversation even further.
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The post Beyond Financing: What Botswana’s Medicines Crisis Is Trying to Tell Us About Duma Care first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Thabo Seleke
