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The group comes from different provinces around the country. The workers were officially welcomed by health MEC Sasekani Manzini.
The Department of Health in Mpumalanga has strengthened its healthcare system with the arrival of more than 500 new intern health workers.
The group comes from different provinces around the country.
The workers were officially welcomed by health MEC Sasekani Manzini, as part of efforts to improve service delivery, and address staff shortages in public health facilities.
The intake includes doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
This is what some of them have to say.
“So, the impact that I am bringing, we are the new generations nurses. We’ve got the new guard lines that we train with from our institutions,” says one of them.
“We are just excited and we have to see what the province has to hold and what the department has to hold,” says another.
“Ever Since I have been there, there is nothing that I can say has been wrong. I feel welcomed,” says another.
Meanwhile, the Mpumalanga Health MEC, Sasekani Manzini, is confident that the arrival of the more than 500 intern health workers will take pressure off the over-worked health workers.
Manzini welcomed the group that includes doctors, nurses and pharmacists in Mbombela.
They have been deployed to hospitals and clinics in all three districts of the province.
She says the health workers will improve service delivery, and address staff shortages in public health facilities.
“Yes, they have already started, they are in our facilities. It’s a statutory requirement that they must come to our facilities and receive training. Most of them are not even from the province because national allocates them, because we need to allocate all of them so that they will be able to get experience.”
Mpumalanga Department of Health ,MEC @sassymsassy Sasekani Manzini welcome 508 Medical Interns and Community Services professionals, who will significantly enhance our healthcare system, enabling us to provide top-notch care to the people of Mpumalanga with empathy, commitment… pic.twitter.com/C39RO7UW0R
— GCIS_Mpumalanga (@GCISMpumalanga) January 22, 2026
