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The New Age reports that Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has challenged any doctor who claims to be unemployed to come forward, in which case such a medic would immediately be placed.
He was responding to media reports which referred to various lists circulating with names of doctors and interns who were unemployed. Motsoaledi lambasted the claims and said they were intended to put his department under pressure. Motsoaledi said he had been supplied with many lists of unemployed doctors and that most of the people named on the lists had declined placements, while others had not yet qualified and others again had already been placed. This is after a group of interns, who claimed to have not been placed, wrote a letter to the World Health Organisation and the UN about their plight. Motsoaledi dared any doctor who claimed to be unemployed to come forward as there were 141 posts in Limpopo and 67 in the Free State. He also indicated that the priority was to place South African interns first as the country did not have capacity to offer jobs to every international student.
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