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Solidarity has demanded that in future private hospitals should be accredited to accommodate internships for graduate medical staff. According to the trade union, these students, as in the case of other medical professions, must be able to receive training at private hospitals.
Solidarity’s response came after it had received several complaints from its members who must report for internships in less than two weeks, but who have not yet been placed by the state. Paul Maritz, manager of Youth and Career Development at Solidarity, said: “It is clear that the state does not have the capacity or the ability to manage the placement of graduate medical personnel. Neither does the state realise the seriousness of the situation the country currently finds itself in amid the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our country is already suffering from a shortage of trained medical staff.” Henru Krüger, sector head of the Health Guild at Solidarity, indicated: “The time is ripe for private hospitals to be allowed to take in young doctors as interns. The state’s monopoly on such internships is clearly unsustainable. The solution is actually less state and less centralisation. It is also clear to us that young doctors are not sufficiently taken care of by the state and therefore could be accommodated better and more effectively by the private sector.”
- Read Solidarity’s press statement in the above regard at Solidarity News
- Read too, Jong dokters dae voor internskap nog nie geplaas, at Maroela Media
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