THE pace was unrelenting. Some nights, he’d be in the emergency unit trying to help someone who’d been shot or stabbed, and another patient would burst in, desperate for treatment. It was a huge effort to keep up with the amount of work, and there was no way to immediately help all the people who flooded in through the hospital doors.
“There simply aren’t enough doctors in the system,” Juandré Klopper (27) says.
The crisis in the South African public health sector is hardly new – stories have done the rounds for years of patients waiting for hours or even days to be seen, some of them dying in the process.
But while some people become
