THE Health Professions Council of South Africa has warned it would come down hard on practitioners who operate without licences.
The HPCSA said health professionals faced a fine or up to 12 months' imprisonment if they were caught practising illegally.
Their comment follows the publication of a story by Sowetan that Dr Dolphina Gabaza Ngobeni, who runs a healing centre in Diepkloof, Soweto, was operating without a licence.
She failed to pay the R1,243 annual fee for 2011 and has since been practising without a renewed licence. It has emerged that she has not paid this year's fee as well.
According to the HPCSA, 10,625 practitioners were suspended in November for not renewing their licences.
In a chain of e-mails to Sowetan,an unrepentant Ngobeni wrote: "There Is No Way You Can Take The Degree Off.It is Done... I Am Doctor..16 Years With The Medical Council 8 years medical school 24 years in total in medicine." She bragged that she was a resident doctor for Soweto Tv, Jozi Fm, SABC 1's Shift, Medical Chronicle, Sweet Life, Diabetes Focus, Soweto Express, Yo TV, House On Call, Ratanang and Good Morning Africa.
She wrote: "Labour issues are for the labour department not you... If the labour department wants relationship with us. They are going to humble themselves and ask for an appointment. I am open to a lot of things and all I want is for my people to grow."
Doctors are warned over licences
THE Health Professions Council of South Africa has warned it would come down hard on practitioners who operate without licences.
The HPCSA said health professionals faced a fine or up to 12 months' imprisonment if they were caught practising illegally.
Their comment follows the publication of a story by Sowetan that Dr Dolphina Gabaza Ngobeni, who runs a healing centre in Diepkloof, Soweto, was operating without a licence.
She failed to pay the R1,243 annual fee for 2011 and has since been practising without a renewed licence. It has emerged that she has not paid this year's fee as well.
According to the HPCSA, 10,625 practitioners were suspended in November for not renewing their licences.
In a chain of e-mails to Sowetan,an unrepentant Ngobeni wrote: "There Is No Way You Can Take The Degree Off.It is Done... I Am Doctor..16 Years With The Medical Council 8 years medical school 24 years in total in medicine." She bragged that she was a resident doctor for Soweto Tv, Jozi Fm, SABC 1's Shift, Medical Chronicle, Sweet Life, Diabetes Focus, Soweto Express, Yo TV, House On Call, Ratanang and Good Morning Africa.
She wrote: "Labour issues are for the labour department not you... If the labour department wants relationship with us. They are going to humble themselves and ask for an appointment. I am open to a lot of things and all I want is for my people to grow."
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