oa South African Family Practice - Midlevel medical worker programme : letter to the editor

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Extracted from text ... Letters to the Editor SA Fam Pract 2004;46(2) 4 MIDLEVEL MEDICAL WORKER PROGRAMME To the editor: The debate on the issue of midlevel medical workers is important. I confess that I have doubts about the planned midlevel medical worker. I am not sure this is the best solution for the problems of health care in rural areas in South Africa. It seems like an admission of defeat. I am very concerned about the rate at which the programme is being pushed, without the intense thought and negotiation around it that there should be, and without us exploring different solutions to ..