Coping with an ‘overdose’ of doctors


THE Government should be applauded for finally resolving to take positive action with regards to oversupply of doctors.

The Ministries of Education and Health constantly referred to an advisory that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had mandated that for a country to attain developed status, it should have one doctor per 400 population.

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