The Gauteng Health Department has blamed “administrative challenges” for the fact that young nurses in the province have not been paid for three months.
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) has condemned the department for “treating them with disdain”, reports News24.
Denosa’s Gauteng chairperson, Simphiwe Gada, said: “Young nurses doing mandatory community service continue to suffer indignity and prejudice by the department, which has not paid their salaries for more than three months now.
“This is despite having several engagements with the department and bringing the matter to the attention of Premier David Makhura.”
He said the department was planning massive retrenchments of nurses in a province with a serious shortage of nurses and huge health demands.
Health Department spokesperson Motalatale Modiba said all post community service nurses and the community service nurses under its employ would receive their salaries by Monday (4 July), adding that no nurses were going to be retrenched. “The department will be appointing the 2021/2022 post community service nurses. Already, of the 811 people, 84 have been permanently appointed since April 2022. The process to appoint the remaining cohort is under way.”
News24 article – Young nurses in Gauteng not paid for three months – Denosa (Open access)
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