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News24 reports that the Gauteng Department of Health has denied reports that it is retrenching nurses. On Sunday, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) accused the department of planning to retrench nurses.
The union also accused the department of ill-treating nurses and threatened to down tools after the department failed to pay the salaries of trainee nurses. "Denosa in Gauteng strongly condemns this inhumane and heartless conduct meted [out to] nurses by the department. Young nurses haven't been paid their salaries for nearly a quarter of a year," Denosa spokesperson Simphiwe Gada said. Gada advised that the union was planning a mass demonstration and would lobby other unions. Gauteng health department spokesperson Motalatale Modiba reacted: “The department can confirm that no nurses are due for retrenchment. All the professional community service nurses for the 2021-22 financial year will be retained and appointed permanently. The process to effect the appointments is under way. Post-community service nurses and the community service nurses whose salary payments have been outstanding, the matter has been resolved.” According to Modiba, forty-five of the just more than 50 trainee nurses affected were due to be paid on Monday, while the mandates of seven others needed to be corrected and their salaries would be urgently processed upon the related administrative issues having been addressed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ntwaagae Seleka at News24
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