Pickets to highlight the problems faced by health-care workers
Workers in the public health-care sector will continue picketing on Monday leading up to a full-blown strike over management’s decision to freeze salaries and to draw attention to the risks its members face from Covid-19.
nurses, doctors, pharmacists, cleaners, dispensary and reception clerks; community health workers, ambulance and morgue workers; community care workers and laboratory technicians, among others. If there was no favourable response to their grievances, “we will embark on a full-blown national strike on September 10”.
Mkhize directed that the availability of PPE needed to be jointly monitored by stakeholders on a daily basis.
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