Health Minister Joe Phaahla says the strike by members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union has caused pain and suffering for South Africans who rely on the public healthcare system.
Health Minister Joe Phaahla says the strike by Nehawu members has caused suffering for South Africans who rely on the public health system.
He said the wage strike deprived the public of life-saving medication and called on the union to instruct employees to return to work on Tuesday. interdicted the strike action by essential service workers, including employees in the health sector.The court order, which the department said would bring stability to the health sector, prevented Nehawu members and all essential service employees from continuing with or participating in any strike, picket or industrial action.
He said at a media briefing on Monday:"There has been enough suffering, enough pain, enough frustration among ordinary South Africans. One would appeal to them to end this."The bargaining council is a legally available forum through which issues remaining to be discussed [can] be ventilated. We can allow South Africans to receive the life-saving treatments they require from public health service.
"In order to protect the rights of essential service workers, the law creates mechanisms for deadlock breaking through mediation, conciliation and arbitration," he said.
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