E-drug: Community service for young pharmacists (cont'd)
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I am a South African qualified pharmacist, my internship or
pre-registration year was spent in Community, but I had a choice. This
new legislation means that *in addition* to the statutory one year
pre-registration training that newly qualified pharmacists have to
undergo, either in community, hospital or industry, they will then be
forced to work for the state for a further 12 months. If they refuse,
they will not be registered with the South African Pharmacy Council,
i.e. they will not be able to practice in South Africa.
When a similar bill was introduced for newly qualified doctors, the
government had to resort to bringing in foreign doctors to meet the
shortfall. That bill was the impetus that many young doctors needed
to pack up and go.
I feel that this new bill will have the same effect on many of the newly
qualified pharmacists.
"Indeed, we are not at all sure that this measure is not
unconstitutional in terms of section 13 of the Constitution on forced
labour, and section 9 on equality."
I'd say.
Philip Galt (BPharm) Wits ACPP MRPharmS
Community Pharmacist
Abergele, North Wales
United Kingdom
e-mail: philip@galt.ukf.net
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