Failing health services not linked to migrants, say doctors, researchers

Attacking sick foreigners in hospital beds not the cure for our ailing health system, say experts

28 August 2022 - 00:00

Understaffing, poor management, inadequate resources and Covid-19 backlog — not pressure from foreign migrants — make it difficult to provide health services,  said doctors in the public health system and researchers in the field this week...

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