THE ANC WILL: Ensure health care for all
• Ensure universal access to quality early child development The ANC will:
by 2030
• Promote healthy lifestyles and preventive health care
• Foster a culture of reading, numeracy and technological campaigns.
skills.
• Move decisively towards implementing the National Health
• Expand skills development programmes in emerging fields Insurance, strengthening health infrastructure, training
like data analytics and artificial intelligence. personnel and creating a single electronic health record.
• Strengthen the post-school education and training sector • Expand the Ideal Clinic programme to improve quality
through better coordination, responsiveness to labour market of care.
needs and improved quality, throughput and access.
• Strengthen financial management and supply chain
• Expand vocational and technical training in schools and post management in public health institutions.
school institutions and build additional TVET and community
colleges. • Collaborate with other countries on research and
development of traditional medicine.
• Fast track the public provision of student residences, using
current expenditure on subsidies from NSFAS, to address the • Leverage new technologies like telemedicine and artificial
backlog in student accommodation. intelligence in health care.
• Offer more digital learning opportunities, invest in specialist
medical training and second chance and lifelong learning
opportunities.
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