Simon Strachan
Simon Strachan MBChB (Cape Town) FCPaed (SA) is a specialist paediatrician who has served his community for 26 years.
He is an advocate for the most vulnerable little people in our society and is passionate about access to quality health care for everyone. As a former chairman of the Paediatrician Management Group and current CEO of the South African Private Practitioners Forum, Simon takes the lead in looking for solutions to complex issues relating to sustaining the private health care sector in South Africa.
Are doctors opposing the NHI fat cats or problem solvers?
2024-10-30Simon 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"?