We are committed to filling those vacant posts. I am not sure that we can deal with your deadline; it depends on a number of issues. The availability and willingness of the specialists to occupy those posts, some of them are in rural areas, you tend to find people being reluctant to move to some of the rural areas. There are quite a number of processes to that we are trying to work on to ensure that we can attract as many of the doctors as possible. Part of looking at the public-private support is to be able to tap onto available specialists even in the private sector who can support the hospitals so that the services are available even if the posts are not filled, and then you can get sectional doctors. We are giving the responsibility to the provincial departments to do whatever it is that is needed to ensure specialist cover whenever it is needed. I cannot commit onto the date, we actually hope that in the future as we move forward, we will be
able to deal with filling the total establishment of our specialist posts. We cannot give the date as the end of December.
Question 54: