Health Minister DrZweliMkhize said Cuban doctors had a special focus on community health orientated primary health care and were among the best in the world, but he said they would not take the jobs of local doctors and health care workers.
Durban - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has denied claims that Cuban doctors who have been deployed in South Africa to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic have taken jobs away from local doctors.
Mkhize said there had been disorientation caused by people who claimed that Cuban doctors were brought into the country while their local counterparts remained unemployed.“We have also gone out to talk to the medical associations and asked them to give us a list of doctors who are unemployed, and we have issued an instruction there are , they must employ them,” he said.
“We have invited the Cuban team to assist us as we needed additional reinforcement, which we will continue to look for whenever we think we need additional support in areas of a crisis such as this one ,” he said.
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