Meanwhile the Hospital Association of SA (HASA) has also asked the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to declare the NHI Act unconstitutional and unlawful and to set it aside, reported MedicalBrief (6 March 2025)
HASA’s members own and operate more than 500 private hospitals, containing three-quarters of the about 40 500 licensed private hospital beds in the country.
“HASA argues that the Act is incoherent, financially unviable, and at odds with the Constitution because it will worsen access to healthcare for the general population and curtail services for asylum seekers.”
Solidarity was the first organisation to try to overturn the Act, shortly after it was signed into law in May 2024, followed by the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) representing the interests of more than 40 medical schemes and administrators covering 4.5m beneficiaries in SA.