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SA should develop strategies to keep doctors in country
Business Day
2000-08-03

Deputy President Jocob Zuma says that SA should be training doctors that will stay in the country, not leave to benefit foreign nations.

On Saturday 29 July, the University of Natal's Medical School was renamed the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine. It has a long history of training black doctors, being the only South African medical school before the 1970's to do so. The school has trained, among others, Dr Mamphele Ramphele, Dr Ben Ngubane (Arts and Culture Minister), Dr Malegapuru Makgoba (Head of the Medical Research Council), Dr Frank Mdlalose and Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba  (director-general for the Department of Health).  

At the celebrations, Deputy President Jocob Zuma said that SA should develop strategies to keep young doctors in the country instead of spending scarce resources training them to benefit  foreign nations. The question we need to ask ourselves again is what are we doing to ensure  that the recruits we bring into our system are ones that are most likely to stay in the country and serve their people ... are we producing the type of doctor who is the patriotic cadre so desperately needed to play a leading role in the transformation within the medical field? 

Zuma said government also needed to develop programmes to bridge the gap. In the face of  emigration of our newly qualified doctors and a shortage of doctors in rural areas, we need to deliberately identify and recruit students, who show potential, from targeted areas of our country particularly rural areas. 
(Source: Business Day, 31/7/00)

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