In conversation with ActionSA’s Gauteng Health and Wellness Spokesperson Emma

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ActionSA says they are deeply concerned by the Gauteng Department of Health’s misplaced human resource priorities.
This comes after a recently released written reply by the MEC for Health and Wellness, Faith Mazibuko, revealing that the department spends more than R612 million annually on the salaries of foreign national healthcare professionals, while hundreds of qualified South African doctors and nurses remain unemployed.
13 Jul English South Africa Politics · News

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