Nurses
Denosa members set to march to Makhura’s office over non-payment of salaries
The union said that some of its members had not been paid for at least four months now.
Managing director of the Board of Healthcare Funders, Dr Katlego Mothudi, says this has a detrimental impact of healthcare services.
It has been a very tough year for nurses working at medical facilities, many of them saw how tens of thousands of people lost their lives due to COVID-19 complications.
Africa's worst-infected country may be over the peak of a deadly second wave of coronavirus, but a surge in patient numbers in recent weeks has left nurses drained.
There have been concerns over shortage of nurses in Limpopo, with the unions saying the province was failing to fill vacant positions.
Forty-nine-year-old Sister Cheryl Buys has spent the past 30 years nursing patients at the medical facility and now heads a ward dedicated to patients infected by the coronavirus.
A 34-year-old mother was left traumatised when she was given the wrong baby after her own died.
The importance of their contribution, while always critical, is more pronounced these days of course amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawyers that represent health professionals on Wednesday said their clients operated under stress when medical schemes investigated them, and they were scared of them.
Denosa says Limpopo and Gauteng informed the nurses in December that it did not have funded posts for them.
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi has called on Nehawu to be more vocal in raising issues affecting nurses, including the poor working conditions many are subjected to.
Rose Ramahlafi has been practicing as a nurse for 44 years, spending the past 33 years training thousands of aspiring nurses.
The union has suspended its deadline to withdraw some of its members working in some areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
This week, nurses had to be escorted from a Grabouw Clinic following an outbreak of violent protests.
Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu says her department will work with the police to file criminal cases.
Gauteng nurses marched from the Helen Joseph Hospital to Campus Square in their white uniforms.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says South Africa has no choice but to ensure that the scheme succeeds.
Nurses yesterday marched to the SA Nursing Council saying they’re overworked and underpaid.
Hundreds of healthworkers marched yesterday against apparent unbearable working conditions & unfair pay.