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TimesLIVE reports that the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) in Ekurhuleni has threatened to withdraw its members from Pholosong Hospital in Tsakane after a nurse was attacked by a patient on Wednesday.
The union reported what happened as follows: "The nurse was attacked and strangled by a patient in the passage inside the facility. After choking her, [the patient] took her cellphones, leaving her down and unconscious for some time this morning because private security has proven over many times that it is ineffective and should be in-sourced. But government continues to ignore this call as if someone is benefiting handsomely from outsourcing this critical healthcare service." The patient, the union said, went through two security checkpoints without a single security guard in sight. The nurse was allegedly a second victim of the same patient. Denosa asked whether workers must die inside a facility first for the security services to be in-sourced so that the security staff were immediately accountable.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nomahlubi Jordaan at TimesLIVE
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