The new health bill is still arguable, raising many questions about the possibility of its implementation on the ground, despite the fact that it will soon be ratified in parliament, as well as, the raising of concerns about the private sector’s dominance over the public sector at the expense of low and middle-income earners.
Critics of the project from parliamentarians and professionals in the sector express their fears of the private sector’s dominance over public, after that the patient is obliged to pay a part of the cost of the treatment, especially those with chronic diseases and various cancers estimated at millions. Moreover, there are many problems that would keep the state in control of the health sector to avoid the return of the diseases of poverty and the spread of epidemics, as well as, leaving the patient to be prey to the private clinics.
This controversy comes in Algeria after the cancellation of the complementary activity of specialists in law in the first stage and then its re-authorization to return convincingly in the cities of the south and high plateaus, after that the Minister of Health succumbed to the lobbies for their interest in keeping the complementary activity. In fact, what suits these lobbies is these private clinics, cards, equipment and users of the public sector, so that they do not have to be declared by the Labour Inspectorate and Social Security and continue to gain large sums of money from this illegal situation, as confirmed by the trade union parties.
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