Newly qualified doctors battle to find jobs in SA’s shambolic public health system
Nearly 200 doctors, 325 nurses and 200 other health workers are unemployed, according to Hire our Medical Heroes
28 January 2021 - 13:30
While Michelle Cerfontyne was completing her medical training in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic overwhelmed SA’s understaffed public hospitals, so the young doctor thought she would get a job easily.
But when she started applying for posts prospectively in September, there seemed to be no vacancies. Since then, a second wave of the coronavirus in SA has far outstripped the first, hitting 20,000 daily cases earlier in January and bringing hospitals closer to breaking point...
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