Gauteng emergency medical services personnel were threatened from responding to calls and denied access in or out of facilities.
Health minister Joe Phaahla and Gauteng MEC for health and wellness Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko are on Thursday conducting site visits to health facilities affected by strikers, beginning with the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital.
On Wednesday evening, the province obtained a court interdict at the Johannesburg labour court against the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union to stop its members from obstructing health services to patients. The strike entered its fourth day on Thursday, with Nehawu members protesting at health facilities in various places across the country in demand of a 10% wage hike.
The Gauteng department of health said it was left with no choice but to seek relief from the courts given “the dire impact of the strike in various facilities where the lives of both patients and staff was under threat”.
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