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Doctors affiliated with various unions staged a protest march against the unemployment of doctors. They marched from Heartfelt Arena in Thaba Tshwane, Pretoria, to hand over a memorandum of demands to Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla at the health department head offices on Thursday.
Department of Health spokesperson Foster Mohale says the official announcement will be made sometime next week on the leaked memo.
The Democratic Alliance is disappointed that the Accident and Emergency Unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital (CMJH) is not fully reopened this week, but will only accept patients in a phased manner, mostly because the CT Scanner has not yet been repaired. This highlights the need for proper security as the Scanner was vandalised despite R40 million spent annually on security at the hospital.