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In part of Al Jazeera's series on Soweto's Bara hospital we visit Medical Admission Ward 20 which deals with all of Sowetos non-surgical medical emergencies.

Doctors are constantly overwhelmed by the numbers of patients seeking help and in this ward, sixty to eighty per cent of deaths are due to HIV and AIDS.

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  • There is a shortage of doctors in South Africa because many doctors emigrate to other Commonwealth countries where the pay is higher and work load is less overwhelming.

    As these doctors emigrate, not enough new doctors are graduating from South African universities to take their place.

    Hospitals are overwhelmed. I wonder if a greater role for the private sector in health care delivery would improve the situation?

  • Wow, complete respect to all those doctors!

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  • @Ipodygirl18 not so fast girl! the only useful nurses in africa are critical care, anesthesiologist and emergency nurses.

  • I honest to GOD cannot believe, that they are not using local anaesthetic to perform a spinal tab......which is just SOOOOOOOOO painful without it, local anaesthetic is NOT an expensive resource, so there is NO justifyable reason for not applying this to a patient.

  • @Ipodygirl18

    blabla...go work there for a while you will change your mind I talk from experience... you need to get experience before you would even be considered for a hospital like this

  • the day i get my degree for nursing, i take a plane!!! I'm coming sooner then you think!

  • Agreed, but also to everyone working there. From the docs, and nurses, to the custodians. Everyone must be busy.

  • It's Afrikaans. It cames from Dutch and German.

  • What language is she speaking @2min?

  • OMG!

    At least at Bara there are no cockroaches crawling over the patients like at Tshepong Provnicial

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