Providing the Providers — Remedying Africa's Shortage of Health Care Workers

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Dr. Cyril Nkabinde, an intern at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Durban, South Africa, grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor — an ambition he inherited from his mother, whose own dream had been thwarted by apartheid. Nkabinde's goal of working as a family physician in rural KwaZulu-Natal has kept him on track, even as he's watched medical school classmates depart for business careers and superiors quit medicine because of a chronic lack of health care resources. Now, as he prepares to marry a fellow physician, Nkabinde realizes that his dream may not be achievable. “The hope is to go into a rural or public setting,” he says, “but if we have kids, it definitely won't be a long-term thing. Obviously, we would have to provide for them — schooling and so on — and the best case is for us to be in the city.”

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