It was reported that the Department of Health has developed a 10-point plan to improve the quality of health services. This plan includes overhauling the management and operation of public hospitals, improving human resource planning, enhancing staffing levels and ensuring efficient procurement of medicine and medical drugs. These are seen as initiatives that lay foundation for a national health insurance system. In order to stabilize the health sector and to ensure the implementation of the ten-point plan a resolution was taken to: . Request the National Treasury to ensure that there is no budget shortfall for the Occupational Specific Dispensation (OSD); . Request full funding for personnel where the posts were filled; . Request full funding for the ARV treatment programme; and . Ensure that there is funding for priority health services such as blood services and the laboratories.