Dental students to march over lack of community service opportunities
Final-year students at the Oral Hygiene and Dental Therapy faculty say dozens of graduates remain at home without work.
Medical students at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria are set to march to the office of Health Minister Joe Phaahla.
They will hand over a memorandum of demands on what they believe to be a lack of community service opportunities.
Final-year students at the Oral Hygiene and Dental Therapy faculty say dozens of graduates remain at home without work.
For the graduates in the field to become independent practitioners they are supposed to serve in government-sponsored community service for 12 months.
Student leader, known as Berry, said there are about 40 students who are doing final year in the field.
“We have been sending emails to the department of Health and we don’t get respond, we want to get jobs from government not private institutions, I know few graduates who are working two days a week at private companies, and it is not sustainable, we need the Minister of Health to intervene.”
The march planned for 4 October will commence from Church Square to the minister’s office.
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