Economic Policy Seminar
Item
- Title
- Economic Policy Seminar
- Creator
- NACTU
- Date Issued
- Jul-90
- 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
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138635
- Archive
- Cory Library for Humanitites Research
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Extent
- 15 pages
- Rights
- National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
- Rights Holder
- National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
- Use/re-use
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
- Publisher
- National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
- Item sets
- General Materials
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