A foreign-trained doctor, who has launched a legal challenge to be allowed to retake a qualifying board exam to practise in South Africa, is not backing down from his fight.
The Mercury reports that Shalen Naidoo succeeded in having the University of KwaZulu-Natal joined as a respondent in his high court battle. In the Durban High Court, Judge King Ndlovu granted a court order to join the to the application and directed it to hand all documents related to the decisions to fail Naidoo in his April 2014 practical exam and not allow him to retake the exam.
The university, on behalf of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), conducts the board exam for foreign-qualified doctors, which they have to pass to be allowed to register as interns. Naidoo brought legal action against the HPCSA, its board and the Professional Boards administrator after he failed the board exam three time and the HPCSA's rules did not allow him to retake it because doctors are only allowed three opportunities to write the exam.
[link url="http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/foreign-trained-doc-in-battle-to-practise-1.1807319#.VMERo9KUfE0"]Full report in The Mercury[/link]