Please go home, wait for posts to be advertised and apply - MEC tells unemployed doctors

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Please go home, wait for posts to be advertised and apply - MEC tells unemployed doctors

More than 600 junior doctors without jobs have in recent weeks taken to the streets to demand permanent jobs, despite the health department saying there is no money to pay themA group of unemployed doctors who camped all night outside the KwaZulu-Natal department of health offices have expressed relief after the province's Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu, reassured them that their plight was being addressed.

KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane presented her department’s budget, citing its greatest challenges The protest was a result of a national crisis and delay in the employment of doctors, which has affected more than 800 qualified doctors nationally. More than 600 junior doctors without jobs have in recent weeks taken to the streets to demand permanent jobs, despite the health department saying there is no money to pay themPublic Servants Association's provincial secretary Mlungisi Ndlovu said the trade union intervened to facilitate a meeting with the head of the health department Dr Sandile Tshabalala to help the doctors' demands to be met. Tshabalala then briefed the MEC about the agreements.

 

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