ActionSA rejects Department of Health’s claim that ConCourt ruling is unrelated to NHI [SOUND]

# ActionSA says it rejects the Health Department’s attempt to downplay the significance of the Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling declaring Sections 36 to 40 of the National Health Act unconstitutional and invalid. Spokesperson Kgosi Letlape says the department claims the judgment is unrelated to the National Health Insurance. He says the department itself argued the scheme created by the impugned provisions is a central pillar in the implementation of the act: