Intern doctor ultimatum: Place all medical interns or prepare for court battle, Sama tells government

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The SA Medical Association has given the government a deadline of the end of Thursday to place all junior doctors as interns — or brace for a court battle.

, Digital Vibes and other questionable PPE tenders. It’s outrageous and deplorable, and someone now needs to be held accountable for these massive failures.”

“Sama would like to remind the government that internship is a statutory component of medical training instituted by the government for doctors to complete their medical training and, as such, it is their responsibility to ensure that all doctors who meet the criteria and standards set by the Health Professions Council of SA through their universities are placed immediately post-qualification so as to execute their civil service without unnecessary delay,” it said.

“The department and the minister are not fulfilling their duties as prescribed in the legislation and it's having a major impact on the professional lives of young doctors who have worked extremely hard to get to this point, only to falter because of the ineptitude of officials,” said Sama chairperson Dr Angelique Coetzee.

The association said South Africans should be enraged at the situation, particularly as there are many hospitals struggling with a lack of doctors during the Covid-19 crisis.

 

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To late to respond, fucken cubain doctors are gone with millions from this shit cadres

The spaces were filled by Cuban doctors

Cyril must reshuffle cabinet

The government doesn't care about us civilians, since them and their families are using private hospitals🙄 and they can travel overseas to be treated

I wonder if Cyril's wife, who is a doctor, does not tell him every night when he gets home, that he is screwing up all the medical institutes with his cabinets choices. Imagine the dinner time conversations in that house.

Iyo entitlement

😡😡😡😡😡

Cyril doesn't take them or the medical profession seriously, that is why he put Tourism Minister without Medical qualifications as Act Min of Health in the midst of a Pandemic.

Obviously not one of the interns is Cuban or they would have been fast tracked.

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