‘Our patients bear the true cost’ of shoestring budgets: jobless junior doctors
Hot in the heels of unemployed doctors’ march to KZN offices, a Western Cape cohort highlights austerity that ‘could be catastrophic’
18 February 2024 - 20:30
A group of unemployed junior doctors have implored President Cyril Ramaphosa and finance minister Enoch Godongwana to seriously consider the effect of budget cuts on the country’s ailing health system, warning that patients would ultimately suffer most...
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