A group of junior doctors is fed up with the national department of health for not paying urgent attention to grievances about their preliminary placements for 2022.
A second-year intern at Tygerberg Hospital said the placement process had been “frustrating at best and scary at worst”.
She said every year they are met with radio silence and occasional false promises, and guaranteed delays. “This is not a problem that hits us only as individuals, it also hurts our families. Many junior doctors financially support their grandparent, parents, siblings, spouses and children, as well as their own cost of living. Leaving us suddenly unemployed is devastating to whole communities.”
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