Basson teaching on voluntary basis - Mediclinic
Cape Town - Dr Wouter Basson’s involvement in the training of student doctors was on a no-compensation, voluntary community-service basis as part of an initiative driven by a group of doctors, Mediclinic Southern Africa said on Wednesday.
This was in response to the uproar following Stellenbosch University’s Tygerberg Student Council’s call for Basson, dubbed “Dr Death”, to be barred from teaching its students.
Basson was the apartheid-era head of the chemical and biological warfare project for the government.
In a statement, the hospital group said the training programme was initiated by a group of doctors in an effort to “address an identified urgent training need for fourth- and fifth-year medical students doing a four-week internal medicine rotation”.
According to the Mediclinic website, Basson is a cardiologist who offers support services at its Durbanville and Panorama hospitals.