Part of South Africa’s national woes includes the significant shortage of skilled workers in critical industries, says Craig Comrie, chief executive officer of the medical scheme, Profmed.

this narrowing skills base is driving the price of healthcare up

the skills shown locally in the medical industry have been aggressively targeted by developed countries as Covid-19 placed pressure on even the best-resourced territories.

The shortage of highly skilled and experienced healthcare workers is a global problem that places a huge strain on health systems, and often, the immediate reaction from developed markets is to poach highly skilled medical 

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