Question NW1342 to the Minister of Health
05 November 2018 - NW1342
Kopane, Ms SP to ask the Minister of Health
What (a) is the total number of South African students who were sent to Cuba for the doctor training programme in each financial year since the inception of the programme and (b) were the total costs incurred by his department of running the programme?
Reply:
- Tables1 (a&b) below show the total number of South African students recruited per province per financial year since the inception of the programme.
Table 1 (a) National Profile of Recruitment of students from 1997 – 2011
Province |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
Total |
EC |
0 |
9 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
11 |
10 |
15 |
25 |
0 |
23 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
12 |
135 |
FS |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
GP |
0 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
40 |
KZN |
0 |
21 |
21 |
21 |
25 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
10 |
15 |
14 |
12 |
169 |
LP |
0 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
23 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
35 |
35 |
20 |
10 |
23 |
16 |
10 |
193 |
MP |
9 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
10 |
11 |
15 |
12 |
99 |
NC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
10 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
12 |
64 |
NW |
0 |
10 |
18 |
22 |
21 |
0 |
2- |
15 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
26 |
15 |
12 |
151 |
Total |
9 |
67 |
60 |
63 |
71 |
41 |
22 |
40 |
75 |
35 |
78 |
60 |
75 |
80 |
80 |
856 |
Table 1(b): National Profile of Students recruited between 2012-2016
Province |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
Total |
EC |
93 |
105 |
93 |
10 |
0 |
301 |
FS |
181 |
20 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
211 |
GP |
94 |
116 |
138 |
112 |
1 |
461 |
KZN |
346 |
304 |
96 |
24 |
0 |
770 |
LP |
40 |
108 |
110 |
110 |
0 |
368 |
Mpu |
91 |
10 |
10 |
100 |
10 |
131 |
NC |
38 |
44 |
27 |
30 |
0 |
139 |
NW |
93 |
176 |
127 |
35 |
0 |
431 |
Total |
976 |
883 |
611 |
421 |
11 |
2,902 |
- The total cost of training since 1997 to 2018 = 3 524 221.735
END.