Health department seeks to speed up work visas
Zweli Mkhize says a national database of unemployed health professionals has been compiled amid a shortage of infectious disease specialists
23 August 2020 - 16:05
As the state battles to tackle the shortages of skilled staff brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the government is looking to fast track the issuing of work visas to foreign health professionals and expedite their registration to allow them to practise in the country.
SA has an acute shortage of infectious disease specialists in public and private hospitals, which has in many instances hamstrung the response to Covid-19...
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