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Nearly half of all the public sector doctor positions in the Eastern Cape are vacant.
That's according to a survey by the Institute of Race Relations.
It says 48% of the Eastern Cape vacancies have not been filled -- the third-highest of the nine provinces.
In the Limpopo province, the vacancy rate stands at an astonishing 86 percent, followed by 57 percent in the Northern Cape.
The SAIRR says Limpopo also had the highest nurse vacancy rate at 68%, followed by the Eastern Cape at 67% and the Free State at 47%.
