The government is ready to solve the issue of more than 300 doctors and nurses working as volunteers in hospitals across South Sudan.
Former health minister Luka Tombekana Monoja told journalists yesterday that the huge numbers of doctors who returned from Khartoum – including over 200 doctors and nurses and 100 young doctors in training – who are working in health facilities across South Sudan could not be recruited by his ministry.He said the situation was so serious that yesterday he made a representation to the council of ministers to make an executive decision to employ health personnel.
The issue is now under vice president Riek Machar who promised to find a quick solution for the volunteers.
Dr. Monoja said it does not make sense for the government to bring doctors from abroad and not pay nationals already working in public health.
The former minister called on the doctors and nurses to be patient because the issue is now in the country’s top authority.