Simon Strachan is a specialist paediatrician who has served his community for 26 years. He is also CEO of the South African Private Practitioners Forum.
Strachan calls himself “an advocate for the most vulnerable little people in our society” and says he is “passionate about the access to quality care for everyone”.
But if this is true, why, then, does he, like many other doctors, oppose the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme when the politicians say it is a “strategy to achieve universal health coverage”?
Freek Robinson spoke to Strachan and asked him whether he and others like him are not mere fat cats who want to continue charging exorbitant fees.