Mpumalanga Department of Health welcomes interns and community service health professionals
5 February 2009
Mpumalanga Department of Health will officially welcome more than 400 interns and community service health professionals in a function to be held as follows:
Date: Friday, 6 February 2009
Venue: Ngwenyama conference centre, White River
Time: 10h00
These professionals will be deployed across the province, focusing specifically on areas of more need.
“Their presence will undoubtedly assist and we are determined to do everything possible to retain them after serving their compulsory internship and community service. We are working more specifically on improving our entry salary level, which has be the biggest detriment in retaining many of these professionals including those that may have preferred to work in our province,” Said MEC Fish Mahlalela.
In total the province has received 455 health professionals broken as follows:
Internship doctors: 60
Community service doctors: 181
Internship pharmacists: 40
Community pharmacists: 68
Dentists: 45
Environmental health: 39
Nurses: 12
These professionals will be deployed in the three districts of the province as follows across all categories:
Ehlanzeni: 216
Gert Sibande: 101
Nkangala: 128
These professionals arrive at the time when the province is experiencing increasing number of people affected by outbreak of cholera, and their presence although they are still learning, will help beef up our human resource.
For more information contact:
Mpho Gabashane
Cell: 082 802 4937
Issued by: Department of Health, Mpumalanga Provincial Government
