By Obakeng Maje

Brits-North West Department of Health MEC Dr Magome Masike revealed a startling reports amid new Brits hospital opening.

The department announced that they advertised 105 job opprtunities for cleaners and received almost 8000 applications. 

And according to Masike, the department of health has been struggling to get 200 potential students who will be granted opportunity to study as health professionals in Cuba.

“This year we needed to take 200 students to Cuba to study medicine, but we struggled to reach 180 prospective students” MEC Masike said.

The new Brits hospital was expected to be opened soon,but MEC said the hospital will open its doors at the later stage.

“We advertised 105 job posts for the newly hospital and we received 8000 job applicants. It is very disturbing if we are a country that can produce cleaners, but fails to produce health professionals” he said.

North West government has been offering deserving students opportunity to study medicine in Cuba for years amid lack of doctors especially in remoted areas.

Masike encourages most pupils to study mathematics and science at school so that they can meet requirements of becoming doctors.-TDN

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