🚑SA military deployed to assist in hospitals operating at skeletal staff as a result of the Nehawu strike, which has no end in sight🚨NehawuStrike TheCitizenNews Catch up on what's happening here⬇️
“We cannot be certain that they [Nehawu] won’t appeal this again, so we will only stop the deployment once we have proper resolution to this,” explained Mohale.The union is demanding a 10% wage increase, while government is offering 4.7%, after several years of no increases being given.The ruling comes as thousands of Nehawu members vowed to intensify their industrial action, which has been marked by violence and intimidation of non-striking workers.
SANDF members manned entry points to the Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Ekurhuleni when Health MinisterThe minister has since linked the deaths of at least four patients to the strike, and the department said operations at Thelle Mogoerane are still affected by the low turnout of employees. Health workers’ plight for an increased wage has rubbed some disgruntled residents and health care staff up the wrong way.Last week, residents in Coronationville in Johannesburg chased away picketing Nehawu members from the Rahima Moosa hospital, who tried to block access to the facility with rocks and burning tyres.
And, in Mpumalanga, the Provincial Health Department is investigating an incident in which a doctor was accosted by protestors and manhandled while at work. The altercation was caught on camera and posted on social media.
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