South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he planned to sign into law a National Health Insurance (NHI) bill that aims to provide universal health coverage to South Africans, although he did not give a time frame.
The bill, which will be implemented in stages at a cost of billions of dollars, is waiting for Ramaphosa’s approval after it was passed by lawmakers last year.
“It is a matter of time,” he told journalists in Cape Town, without providing further details.
