South Africans to cover GP shortages

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

With a huge exchange rate advantage between the South African rand and the euro, the visiting doctors find it more financially lucrative to make the near 13,000-mile round trip between Cape Town and Shannon Airport for shift work here than work full time in their own practices.

At present there are five South African doctors working as locums for Mid West doctors in the Shannondoc co-operative.