Efforts to improve doctor patient contact in the North West province received a major potential boost with announcement by Health MEC Dr Magome Masike that the province will this year send 180 students to study medicine in Cuba. This is a drastic improvement from 100 that was recruited in 2012.
The province has 72 medical students from poor backgrounds who successfully completed their medical studies and are now serving their communities since the inception of the South Africa Cuba Medical programme in 1995.
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