GroundUp reports that hundreds of nurses from across KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) marched to the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Monday seeking to get the MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, removed.  

“Can we get a MEC who knows what he is doing?  This is the third march this year.  We are short staffed and overworked,” said disgruntled nurse Bongekile Khomo who has to take care of 60 patients in one ward.  Most of the nurses who marched from Alexandra Park to the legislature were part of the United Nurses Forum, which said that nurses were short staffed in health institutions, with nurses working in rural areas suffering the most.  Zithembiso Nzuza accepted the memorandum on behalf of the speaker of the KZN legislature and confirmed that they were aware that a memorandum had been handed over to the office of the premier in May.  The premier apparently tasked the department to attend to the issues.

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