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Hope at last for foreign nurse recruitment?
An infuriating logjam in the enlistment of vitally needed foreign qualified nurses for South Africa stands to be broken with the hiring of the dynamic rural health-worker recruitment NGO, Africa Health Placements (AHP) – but bureaucrats will need to add their own muscle to clear two vital obstructions. The famously slow-moving SA Nursing Council (SANC) must streamline and simplify its cumbersom...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Laboratory Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0007-5027,1943-7730
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/27.12.856