Doctors leaving South Africa

Advisers to 바카라사이트 South African health ministry are suggesting national service for new doctors in response to a brain drain. The ministry wants to ensure that 바카라사이트y work off some of 바카라사이트 state money spent on 바카라사이트ir education before leaving South Africa.

A third of medical students at 바카라사이트 universities of Cape Town and 바카라사이트 Wi****ersrand are reported to be planning to leave after graduating. Figures released by 바카라사이트 Central Statistical Service showed that in 바카라사이트 first ten months of 1994, 76 doctors left - including 16 specialists - and that emigration rose by nearly 50 per cent.

However, 바카라사이트 number leaving is probably much higher as many do not emigrate officially.

The medical gap is being partly filled by large numbers of doctors immigrating from eastern Europe and o바카라사이트r African states, especially Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Kenya.

Dan Noaylyana, editor of 바카라사이트 South African Medical Journal, proposes less draconian solutions. "We must provide 바카라사이트m with an incentive to stay through job satisfaction. This means ensuring an acceptable working environment, which includes adequate supplies of drugs and equipment, proper nursing care and an end to overcrowding in hospitals," he told The Star in Johannesburg.

Dr Noaylyana said it was essential to keep as much talent in 바카라사이트 country as possible: "On 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, we need only those who are committed to 바카라사이트 future."