More doctors and nurses for the Easten Cape

SAfm — The Eastern Cape Health Department has received a boost for health care delivery. This follows the appointment of 1 240 newly qualified health professionals from the national department. These include 179 medical interns; 130 Community Service Doctors and 654 Community Service Nurses. This comes at a time when the province battles with major staff shortages in the public health service. The province has employed over 9 000 nurses and more than 1 000 doctors to service an estimated seven million people in the province. Aphiwe Honono presents this report which was compiled by Makhaya Komisa.