Needed: 1000 slots for new doctors

[NewsWhore]

Hundreds of newly graduated doctors are on waiting lists for vacancies for their compulsory one-year apprenticeship service in the nation's public hospitals. The current 1,200 slots are woefully insufficient and another 950 are needed to satisfy demand. Without the apprenticeship service, doctors cannot obtain their license to practice medicine in the Dominican Republic. Generally speaking, these young doctors are assigned to work in primary care units all over the country. In many of the most remote areas they are the only doctors serving the local population.

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