7 August 2013
IOL
Sending students to Cuba to train as doctors was an expensive exercise for KwaZulu-Natal, and the province was now considering opening more medical schools and importing Cuban lecturers.
Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo told the health portfolio committee at the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday that next week he would lead a team to Angola on a mission to establish how the country managed to open medical schools with lecturers from Cuba.
“It is more convenient if students are trained at home,” he said.
South Africa first sent students to Cuba in 1995 to address the shortage of doctors.
