The 1 292 Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro Health Collaboration Programme medical students who graduated this week join the long list of other newly qualified South African doctors caught up in government’s community service placement fiasco. The South African Medical Association Trade Union has bemoaned that the Department of Health did not have funding for 644 community service and 384 interns at government health facilities for 2022.
Estimates in 2019 put the annual cost of training a doctor in Cuba R331,000 per person. This means government spent more than double what it would cost at a local medical school, while require a year longer for said training than had it been done locally. Mosam said from her understanding, this process was not in place for Cuban-trained doctors and she viewed this as a failure of the SA health system to protect citizens from harm.A doctor at a Johannesburg state hospital has said that in recent years some of the junior Cuban-trained doctors’ clinical skills have come up short, suggesting a level of training far below what would be deemed acceptable in a local medical school.
She explained that the Cuban health care system is vastly different to SA’s as it focuses on primary health care and prevention, while SA medical training emphasised curative, or reactive medicine.Davison said the Cuban approach to health care could be very beneficial, particularly in rural communities and for people who do not have access to hospitals.
Do you have statistics of their negligent cases or their failures? This is just pure jealous
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