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TMG Digital reports that there is a lack of state posts for pharmacists to complete their year of community service‚ forcing them into unemployment.
This is according to the Pharmaceutical Society of SA (PSSA), which 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. 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 PSSA. She added that, while there were problems every year placing staff in community service posts‚ far more were out of work this year, forcing the society to publicise the issue. Seemingly, there has been an increase in the number of professionals trained‚ but not an increase in state-funded posts to absorb them.
- Read this report by Katharine Child in full at BusinessLive
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