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SA short of paediatric surgeons

South Africa has a "grave shortage" of paediatric surgeons, according to the SA Association of Paediatric Surgeons.

26 May 2011

(image: Wikimedia Commons)

(image: Wikimedia Commons)

The association said there were only 27 registered paediatric surgeons in the country, but added that some of them had already retired and that two worked only in private practice. Read on.

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