No Moratorium on Medical Posts.
8 February 2016
The Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi is highly disturbed by media reports that suggest that medical posts are frozen in the country.
The report claims that medical posts are frozen in Mpumalanga; Free State; North West; Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal, according to the SA Medical Association.
Mark Sonderup, vice-chairman of the South African Medical Association was quoted as saying “The most expedient mechanism to achieve budgets cuts is to freeze posts”
“We want to put it on record that there are no medical posts frozen in this country. If there is freezing of posts by government departments, they have nothing to do with medical doctors as posts in the health sector are exempted. The country needs doctors to work in health facilities and therefore there is no way we can put moratorium on medical posts", Motsoaledi said.