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The Citizen reports that the Department of Health’s (DOH’s) application portal for doctors hoping to apply for community service positions next year is such a mess that hundreds of doctors are currently still unable to register and verify their details.
This is despite the deadline for applications being only a few days off. The Citizen saw one doctor’s call logs proving that she had made over 70 calls to the helpline over several days. This inability to register and access the available positions means these doctors could be rendered unemployed come January, and will only be able to apply for placement again in the June intake of community service doctors. Doctors are unable to go into private practice or specialise in SA without completing this community service. Doctors complain of having to go through a tedious and frustratingly slow process of approval when applying to the DOH to do the mandatory community service, an experience that leads to some emigrating to practise in other countries. Many are demanding that the Junior Doctors Association of SA (Judasa) request an extension on the application deadline.
- Read this report by Brian Sokutu and Earl Coetzee in full at The Citizen
- Read too, Disturbing letter highlights frustrations of SA’s doctors, at The Citizen
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