According to a Memorandum of Demands drafted by these foreign trained doctors, last year, they tendered their applications to the Health Professions Council of South Africa and the South African government, to be formally acknowledged and invited to sit and write their board examinations in order to practice medicine in South Africa. As the lives of medical graduates continue to be in limbo, the Health body( Health Professions Council of South Africa and the South African government has be given between 14 to 21 days to give a detailed response on how they are planning to solve the ongoing grievances of these young doctors who studied in Russia.
SOURCE: AFRICA NEWS