There is a lack of state posts for pharmacists to complete their year of community service‚ forcing them into unemployment‚ according to the Pharmaceutical Society of SA. The society said on Monday that if the government could not afford to offer pharmacists community service posts‚ then it had no legal or moral basis to enforce community service and it should end the practice. Pharmacists cannot work in either the private or state sector until they have completed a legally required year of community service‚ usually in understaffed state hospitals or rural parts of the country. Of the 984 who were supposed to start work at the beginning of the year‚ at least 78 do not have jobs. There may be as many 129 newly qualified pharmacists who were supposed to start work this year and are without jobs‚ said Lorraine Osman‚ a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of SA. "Although the National Department of Health was notified of the number of interns who would need placement‚ provinces found ...
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