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Health Minister Joe Phaahla has announced that his Department and Treasury have found the solution to the crisis of unemployed doctors who are willing to work in the public service.
About 1 000 unemployed South African doctors have taken to social media to air their plight where they said the government is failing to give them job opportunities although there is a dire shortage of doctors in public health services.
Initially Phaahla said there were vacancies but there was no budget allocated. However, during the recent debate on the State of the Nation Address (Sona) in Cape Town Phaahla announced that the government may have a solution to have all the unemployed health professionals absorbed in the public sector by April .
Government is working tirelessly to ensure that unemployed doctors who want to join the public service are placed by 1 April this year, said Phaahla
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