Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs' adjustment budget to help fight Covid-19 tops R107 billion.R20.4 billion goes to municipalities for Covid-19 relief and other preparations.Deputy Minister Parks Tau said 44 municipalities are under administration, highlighting the challenge in local government.The Department of Cooperative Governance and…
DA spokesperson on finance Geordin Hill-Lewis. Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni delivers an adjustment budget in response to the Covid-19 pandemic on Wednesday. Opposition party the DA says low economic growth and high debt have impacted on SA's ability to save in times of plenty, and to spend in a time of crisis.It requires a "resilience budget"…
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him