Unemployed doctors in KwaZulu-Natal plan march to demand job opportunities

Show Voice Options Frustrated unemployed doctors who have recently completed their community service are set to march to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health’s headquarters at the Natalia Building in Pietermaritzburg on Monday. This anticipated demonstration aims to urge the government to assist them in securing employment opportunities amid a growing crisis within the healthcare system. Play Video This comes after unemployed doctors staged a sit-in at the Natalia building last year, calling for the department to provide them with jobs. Prior to this, more than 100 unemployed doctors marched and handed over a memorandum of demands to then deputy health minister, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, and KZN health’s head of department, Dr Sandile Tshabalala. Last week, unemployed doctors protested in Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape, demanding to be employed.