Dictating where doctors work not unlike a Dom Pass: iLIVE

This "certificate of need" can be likened to a Dom Pass.

It is controlling the movement of citizens, and where they may work and the right to work. It amounts to sub-human treatment of people.

This is not constitutional. The ANC government must find alternative solutions, such as Telemedicine.

At the moment I believe the ratio is 1 doctor (GP) to +/- 5000 patients in South Africa, if not higher in urban areas.

Who is programming Zuma. No one can force anyone to do anything in a free democratic country. Is this country becoming a police state under the guise of a free democracy. - Dave Wailer

- The government is not being generous or giving anything away in saying that no practitioner can be forced to work in an area where it’s not financially viable.

It is merely protecting its own tax base. Obviously if a practice is not financially viable it ceases to exist and the tax flow from it to the government also ceases to exist.

But the government wants not only the “ordinary” tax that is paid to SARS, but also the “hidden tax” that comes about through forcing a practitioner to work in an area where he can make a profit, but a smaller profit than he would otherwise make. - Raymond Silson

- That's very interesting,  because at present most government hospitals don't have enough posts to accommodate everyone.

Whites are sidelined. To add on, their military hospitals pay their doctors below recommended salaries.

We'll see how they'll get away with this one! - Mmule Tshoke

- This is just a clever way to fill the money basket of the ANC government because those sertificates will cost a few thousand rand.

We are just going to loose more and more health prof.  And SA is going to end up being a POOR and SICK country. - Estelle Britz