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The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has expressed concern over the shortage of medical professionals in the country, saying this is straining efforts to provide quality health care.

SAMA says what is pivotal among the problems, is the delay in the annual placement of interns.

It was revealed recently in a parliamentary debate that the doctor-patient ratio is one doctor per 3198 patients. The association’s Dr Akhtar Hussain says, “The National Department of Health and Internship Community Service Programme , they have been failing to place our interns even last year and previous year as well. Previously, as the South African Medical Association, we as a stakeholder, we’ve been helping the department of health on how to place interns, how to allocate community doctors, but recently they are not having multi-stakeholder meetings, they’re having very poor planning.

 

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There are unemployed nurses and doctors yet you want to outsource from cuba again🤦‍♀️

In their attempt to “Import” foreign doctors! Sure have a thing for Cubans? Note the names and designations of the elite players!

ANC is doing it's best to create business for private hospitals, health budget is only paying for tenders.

That’s simply the outcome of not granting places in medical schools to the best matriculants… 28 years of bucking the system has its price

Infrastructure shortage ,,I think so 🤞🤞

42566657PL But we hear of graduate doctors and nurses sitting at home jobless 🤷🏾‍♂️.

There is such thing of shortage of medical professionals whats going on about so many graduates wich we ve got in our Country. that's a bull......

What have they done to make the profession lucrative to young SAns? How many South African students got bursary from their scheme before complaining about the shortage? Their main interest is on foreign labor period

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