South Africa: Rural Hospitals Buckle as Foreign Doctors Delayed

25 January 2012

Rural hospitals in South Africa are facing a serious doctor shortage in 2012 as a result of delays in registering foreign qualified doctors and the failure to place community service doctors in underserved hospitals.

Many of the foreign qualified doctors who provide essential medical care in remote and rural parts of South Africa are from the Developed World (United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand) and their training and experience is considered equivalent to that of South African trained doctors so they can be registered here without passing extra examinations.

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