Taxpayers to fund medical cover for public servants outside SHIF

National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi.

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Taxpayers will bear the burden of a separate medical insurance scheme for civil servants outside the troubled Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), a new proposal by the National Treasury indicates.

This comes even after the rollout of the new Social Health Authority’s SHIF, which the government has touted as a more comprehensive and superior scheme to the previous National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).

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