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Rural Doctor of the Year 2025
Dr Andrew Wilkins
Madwaleni Hospital
Eastern Cape
Andy, and his wife Sarah, arrived as a newlywed couple to Madwaleni Hospital in 2018, bright-eyed and filled with a passion to fulfil their calling at a rural hospital. He soon sought to make deeper impacts on local communities by specialising in Family Medicine, which he successfully achieved through the decentralised programme at WSU, qualifying cum laude for his remarkable research work.
While dealing with some very real consequences of life in a rural hospital and the associated attrition...
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2021: Dr Michaela Lotz and Dr John-D Lotz Madwaleni Hospital, Eastern Cape
2020: Dr Angela Hartwig Amathole, Eastern Cape
2019: Dr Andrew Miller Madwaleni Hospital, Eastern Cape
2018: Dr Mikail Gurland Tintswalo Hospital, Mpumalanga
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2015: Dr Ndiviwe Mphothulo Taung, Mpumalanga
2014: Dr Jenny Nash Amatole District Team, Eastern Cape
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Special Awards
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