Johnathan Paoli
THE Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union (Haitu) will be marching to the Limpopo Department of Health on Friday to demand that the MEC of Health, Dr. Phophi Ramathuba, stop sabotaging healthcare services in the province, and fill all outstanding vacancies.
This follows an announcement in March this year where Ramathuba said all clinics would operate on a 24-hour basis.
The union is particularly interested in finding out how this is going to be achieved considering the fact that the province keeps terminating contracts, and has failed to fill outstanding vacancies.
Haitu also highlighted the massive staff shortages in all hospitals and clinics and said this contributes to very long queues, frustration which leads to dissatisfaction and abuse on workers.
This year the department terminated 706 nursing posts in the province, which has worsened service delivery, whilst at the same time, failing to fill 1 200 vacant
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