Chair, Minister, doctors who were employed particularly in Limpopo on the pilot projects have already been released on as they were no longer funds to pay them. We have been on to three provinces on public hearings and we are constantly hearing people insisting that there needs to be more doctors and nurses in clinics and hospitals. The current proposed legislations does not state how many, where or how doctors are going to be employed and there is no indication of cost required - billions we suspect.
Given the already high vacancy rate in critical post and the Treasury advising that proposed legislation cannot be adopted as South Africa cannot afford it in this current fiscal shambles. How do you propose to address the shortages of doctors and by when?