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TimesLIVE reports that the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Health (DOH) says funding is one of the key challenges to hiring unemployed doctors in the province.
Provincial health MEC Nomagugu Simelane urged about 50 doctors who staged a sit-in at the DOH’s head office on Tuesday until they received appointment letters, to be patient as their concerns were being addressed. On Wednesday, Simelane advised that the head of the DOH had held a three-hour meeting with some of the doctors, at which some agreements were reached. She appealed to the doctors to return home and “be patient as the matter is receiving attention”. Simelane added that the issue of the unemployed doctors was being dealt with at the highest level, with the KZN premier engaged in talks with the president as well as the national health and finance ministers. Meanwhile, the Public Servants Association (PSA) called for an urgent plan for the appointment of doctors. The union's Mlungisi Ndlovu said despite efforts by the PSA, the health department and the KZN premier's office remained unresponsive and failed to provide clarity or a tangible plan. “The PSA is compelled to escalate these demands and implores the public protector and other progressive forces to exert pressure on the government to prioritise the employment of doctors,” Ndlovu indicated.
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