08-19-2016, 08:31 AM
A fundamental problem here has been the long term underinvestment in training of medical personnel, be it doctors, nurses or others.  We have built a training system that presumes that we can operate on minimum level of medical professionals.  If we want to have 24/7 cover, we need to have the level of personnel available to provide that cover, which means increasing the number of doctors and nurses available by at least 50%.  At the moment we have 2.2 doctors per 1000 head of population.  To really have an effective medical system we need to have something more like 4 per 1000.