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S.African medics threaten court action as staff shortages hit COVID response

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S.African medics threaten court action as staff shortages hit COVID response

Anees Kara, a paramedic and project manager, treats a patient at the MASA Medpark in Johannesburg

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By Tim Cocks and Nqobile Dludla

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African Medical Association threatened on Thursday to take the government to court because scores of new junior doctors cannot find placements despite staff shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SAMA said it was “scandalous” that, during a third wave of infections, 228 medical interns who graduated in March and April were waiting for the government to place them at public hospitals to complete their training.

A spokesperson at the Department of Health did not respond to a request for comment.

“They (the interns) were supposed to all have been placed by today,” Angelique Coetzee, SAMA chairperson, told Reuters by telephone, adding that she would seek a court order if they were not.

She said the window was narrowing to find them internships because of how the training cycle works: “By July, if you don’t slot them in, they’ll be sitting at home for a year.”

South Africa is now registering more than 16,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, largely because of the more infectious Delta variant, and only about 5% of the population have received at least one vaccine dose.

Underscoring the strain public hospitals are under, patients in Johannesburg, the main commercial hub at the centre of South Africa’s latest wave of infections, were on Thursday spilling over into a makeshift COVID-19 ward set up by a Muslim charity.

Inside the brick building, after a night of little sleep, volunteer doctor Anees Kara was stabilizing high blood pressure in a patient who arrived after failing to find a place in a public ward.

“That’s a daily occurrence, hourly occurrence actually,” he told Reuters just outside the treatment room.

He and some colleagues set up the 20-bed ward in five days. “Ever since then it’s been one bed gets cleared and then one patient comes in,” he said.

The department of health also faces allegations of irregular contracts with a public relations firm worth millions of dollars, which last month forced the minister, Zweli Mkhize, to go on special leave.

(Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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