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IOL News reports that security was increased at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH) on Monday as the MK Party made claims of mismanagement at the hospital.
The MK Labour Desk, KZN Health Portfolio Committee member Pearl Gasa and MK Party Member of Parliament and Employment and Labour Portfolio Committee member Nkosentsha Shezi were part of the grouping. MK Party members sang and danced at the gates of the hospital while waiting for feedback from management. Inside the hospital, Shezi turned to one of the wards and asked for ward management. “One of the discoveries that I got was the fact that the IALCH has a shortage of nurses. Nurses who have resigned, or gone on retirement, or posts that should have been created by attrition, are not replaced. The person I was speaking to said they have a shortage of around 100 nurses. When they inquire about those posts, they are told that there is no budget.” Shezi said.
South African Police Service, Durban Metro Police and hospital security were on high alert. Earlier, Mlungisi Zondi of the National MK Labour Desk said that over recent weeks, IALCH employees had complained to them about how they were being treated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thobeka Ngema at IOL News
- Read too, KZN health slams ‘smear campaign’ alleging improper appointment of foreign national as nursing manager at hospital, at IOL News
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