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‘Foreign Trained’ South African Doctors Left Disgruntled

September 11, 2018

Mohamed Ameen Dabhelia- 2018/09/11

An attorney representing South African medical students who have studied and qualified abroad told Radio Islam that students are disgruntled.

It has been revealed that upon a student’s return, the Department of Health and the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) require foreign graduates to complete a one year bridging course at a local South African university.

READ: SA Doctors Who Studied Abroad Left In Limbo

Annie Tooray of Pravda and Knowles Attorneys claim the Department and the HPCSA are at odds with each other when it comes to the policy in question.

“When the HPCSA centre is called upon for clarification they merely state that the health department got their own policy and rulings that have got nothing to do with them and that the HPCSA is out on deliberation and they don’t have their policy out as yet.”

Tooray blamed the ‘quota system’ implemented by the majority of South African universities as the reason why students went to study abroad.

“Our 1994 babies who went overseas, went because students of ‘A aggregate’ were said sorry we not taking you because you are not black enough, so the ‘C aggregate’ black students were accepted and unfortunately most of the students who went to foreign trained universities are all Indian, so maybe it’s a race issue.”

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