ANA reports that health workers in Limpopo are gearing up for a day of labour action on Wednesday when they will down tools and march to government offices to raise a number of grievances.  

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) said on Monday that the MEC of health in Limpopo, Phophi Ramathuba, had failed in her duties to resolve systemic challenges in health.  The union demanded that she be fired.  It claimed that there was an extreme shortage of staff in the department of health in the province and that health facilities were suffering from a continuous shortage of pharmaceutical supplies.  Among other demands that Nehawu wants addressed are the withdrawal of circulars that grounded government vehicles and the appointment of community health workers as full-time employees of the department.  Exactly a year ago, Nehawu held a similar day of action and delivered a memorandum of demands raising more or less the same issues.

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