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June 20, 2007New England Journal of Medicine77 citations

Providing the Providers — Remedying Africa's Shortage of Health Care Workers

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PKPooja Kumar

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Dr. Cyril Nkabinde, an intern at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Durban, South Africa, grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor — an ambition he inherited from his mother, whose own dream had been thwarted by apartheid. Nkabinde's goal of working as a family physician in rural KwaZulu-Natal has kept him on track, even as he's watched medical school classmates depart for business careers and superiors quit medicine because of a chronic lack of health care resources. Now, as he prepares to marry a fellow physician, Nkabinde realizes that his dream may not be achievable. “The hope is to go . . .

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ca449e28175e95a237002https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp078091
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