The National Education, Health, and Allied Workers Union brought health services in several hospitals and clinics countywide to a halt on Monday morning.
Hospital strikes causes disruptions as public servants down tools, Chris Hani Baragwanath hardest hitMotalatale Modiba of the Gauteng health department confirmed that in some instances ambulances were unable to attend to emergencies because they were unable to leave or enter facilities that had been blocked by protesters.
Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha stopped all elective surgeries and only performed emergency surgery. Protesters shut the gates to both Livingstone Hospital and Dora Nginza Hospital for a while, but these were later reopened.Protesters burned tyres on the road leading to Dora Nginza Hospital in Zwide, Nelson Mandela Bay. This hospital is the centre for maternal and paediatric care in the metro. Late in the morning the gates were shut but later reopened.
“The department respects the right to strike by members of the trade unions as enshrined in the Constitution of the country. However, such rights should not violate the constitutional rights of others to life and access to healthcare,” it said. “Employees who render essential services or maintenance services and participate in the strike during working hours will constitute misconduct, and will have the principle of ‘No Work No Pay strictly and timeously applied.
, to embark on a strike on 1 November, after wage negotiations collapsed, mainly because the government did not agree with their demands .for the 2022/23 financial year, saying it is unaffordable and exceeds its current budget to remunerate public servants. At the time it would have cost the fiscus R49.2-billion to implement.
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