News24 | OPINION | Sigrid Kite-Banks: Rural areas need these health workers. So does NHI

Community health workers — also known as ooNomakhaya in isiXhosa — fill a major gap in healthcare in hard-to-reach places. Which is why National Health Insurance needs to make sure they are part of the plan, writes Bulungula Incubator’s Sigrid Kite-Banks.