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The Citizen reports that the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has threatened to shut down all the forensic pathology service facilities in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) if the provincial Department of Health (DOH) does not act on their demands.
On Monday, members of the union at forensic pathology service facilities across the province, including Fort Napier, picketed outside the Natalia Building in Pietermaritzburg, where they submitted their memorandum of demands. Their list of demands included the immediate filling of all funded vacant posts; immediate implementation of the sustainable model for professionalisation of forensic pathology services; an immediate end to salary disparities within the forensic directorate; and compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act by fixing the broken cold rooms where corpses were kept and by ensuring air-conditioners were working properly. Mazwi Ngubane, Nehawu secretary in the Harry Gwala Region, said they were tired of the DOH ignoring their issues. He indicated that the issues they raised in the memorandum were not new, as they have been raised several times before, but the department had failed to attend to them. Spokesperson for the DOH said: “Yes, the memorandum was received. The department will handle the matter accordingly.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lethiwe Makhanya at The Citizen
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