Rural Health and Registration of Foreign Qualified Doctors
Abstract
The rural black areas of southern Africa have been experiencing a chronic shortage of doctors for the last 15 years especially since mission hospitals were taken over by state health services. The doctor/patient ratio is often in excess of 1/ 15000 compared to the overall South African figure of 1/1500.
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