{"id":14664,"date":"2025-11-06T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-health-minister-warns-against-pervasive-threat-of-financialisation-of-health\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:09","slug":"sa-health-minister-warns-against-pervasive-threat-of-financialisation-of-health","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-health-minister-warns-against-pervasive-threat-of-financialisation-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Health Minister warns against pervasive\u00a0threat of\u00a0financialisation\u00a0of health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Health Minister Doctor Aaron\u00a0Motsoaledi\u00a0has warned the delegates attending the\u00a0G20 Health Ministers meeting in\u00a0Polokwane, Limpopo Province, against a\u00a0pervasive\u00a0threat of\u00a0financialisation\u00a0of health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He says he is concerned that healthcare is turned into a\u00a0marketable\u00a0commodity that is available to a select few.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Addressing Health Ministers and senior officials from the world&#8217;s leading economies,\u00a0Motsoaledi\u00a0said they need to take lessons from\u00a0global\u00a0experiences to ensure public financing remains central.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This is part of the move by health departments to empower the poor through National Health Insurance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jA1RWZ3BuTE?si=otoBFAEhhlTsZaTG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14665,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-14664","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Warning against the pervasive\u00a0threat of\u00a0financialisation\u00a0of health","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19227,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14664\/revisions\/19227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}