Makgalemele distances Khama from health policy :: Mmegi Online

Government has denied that the suspended health policy that denies medical coverage to injuries related to self-inflicted harm will come under the new Health Financing strategy currently being developed for solutions for health services funding modalities.

In March this year, the Ministry of Health and Wellness introduced a health policy that removed injuries related to self-inflicted harm from government medical cover. This was contained in a savingram from the ministry’s permanent secretary Shenaaz El-Halabi dated March 29, 2017, titled “Removal from medical cover for self-inflicted harm” addressed to District Health Management Team (DHMT) heads.

wThe savingram stated that the implementation of removal of medical cover for self-inflicted injuries will be on: drunken driving, riding motorbikes without helmet, failure to use seat belts for self or children as passengers, participation in riots and mass gatherings involving violence leading to injury, lung cancer associated with tobacco and tobacco products and attempted suicide related to alcohol or drug abuse.

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