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It is understood the province is “centralising” its management of small rural hospitals on the capital Bisho， and， at the same time， cutting rural resident doctors session hours from 40 to 20 a week. Many are the only medical practitioners for hundreds of kilometres， and many are on call round the clock.
The department had been warned about the ct that there would be few doctors left to serve these rural communities.
Yet they have R100 million for a youth festival that in a lot of peoples opinion was one of the biggest waste of tax payers money. Priororities people get your priororities right and things will ll into place.
“Theres no time for orthopaedic problems， theres no money for those kind of things，” she said.
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In a document tabled at the briefing， Christiane said that of the rural doctors serving at hospitals in small towns across the north-eastern region of the province， “all but two” had indicated they would go.
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“I would like to emphasise (this)… HIV has so overwhelmed our health system， theres no money for anything else. Its just all concentrated， pneumonia， gastro， coming into our little hospital. We have to treat them， the debilitated people.
“As all the rural resident doctors have up to this point in time rendered total care to their communities – despite the amount of allotted sessions – for the complete 168 hours of each week， the proposed plan is an insult.”
Christiane also highlighted the massive impact Aids is having on rural communities， and how it was limiting small hospitals ability to deal with other ailments.
“Come April 1， and Bisho， or the Eastern Cape health department， really and truly introduces this 20-session thing for the rural resident doctor， all of them will be leaving，” she told MPs.
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Let them die. They do not contribute to the economy and never will. They will move to towns and commit crimes. Focus money on the White taxpayer and try save the country from the mess they have us in.
This seems like a typical ANC knee-jerk scenario. We are so short of doctors， so lets cut their paid hours of work!
Christiane labelled the provincial departments decision an insult.
Knowing Dr Christiane I feel for these Doctors and what they have been cing. To be a Dr in these small towns shows a true commitment to the health of people. I am very very sad to see health department eastern capehow health services， not only in rural areas but also at Bara for example， have just gone backwards. Lucky are those who can afford private health care. Until that is also brought down? Thank you and good luck to each and every hardworking Dr and Nurse in SA!
The shortage of rural doctors was not confined to the Eastern Cape only， but apparent in “many small towns” across the country， Christiane warned.
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Let those greedy Drs F-off. We will replace them with Drs from Kweraland， and if they also run away then we will let the nurses do the work， and if they also run away… well then we blame it on Apartheid.
A health crisis is looming in many Eastern Cape small towns.
Committee chairman Monwabisi Goqwana said members would examine the documents tabled at the briefing， make recommendations， and take these up with the national department. – Sapa
health deparDoctor exodus looms，A health crisis is looming in many Eastern Cape small towns following a proposal by the provinces health department to slash the number of paid hours for resident doctors at rural hospitals.
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“We are fighting to re-set this thing… but theres not actually too much insight about this whole problem.”
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Briefing members of Parliaments health portfolio committee on Tuesday， Dordrecht doctor Susan Christiane said the departments plan to reduce “sessions” served by doctors at rural hospitals to 20 hours a week would see many of them quit.