More than one in three health care professionals planning to leave South Africa

A group of doctors have warned of the ‘destruction’ of South Africa’s healthcare sector as the country’s medical practitioners face increased persecution.

A letter signed by the Federation of South African Surgeons, the South African Medical Association, the South African Private Practitioners Forum and the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists states that without immediate action and intervention to restore the confidence of healthcare workers, there soon might not be any of them left.

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