Acting Gauteng Department of Health MEC Jacob Mamabolo has assured Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital nurses, who were appointed on Covid-19 contracts, their salaries would be processed by end of August.
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The nurses were employed following a call by the Gauteng Department of Health for qualified professionals to apply for positions and to help the province deal with the peak of the outbreak.“When we asked for exact dates, they said it would be before the end of the month and it would be double. We said we don’t care whether it’s double or not but we want to know when exactly we are getting paid,” some of the nurses said.
Mamabolo said on Tuesday he had directed the department to compile a consolidated report on Covid-19 human resource related issues at all facilities by the end of this week to ensure health workers were not inconvenienced any further.“We cannot expect frontline workers to lead the fight against the Coronavirus while on the other hand we are letting them down in terms of their remuneration,” he said.
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