Nehawu said it will take urgent legal action to compel government to protect its members on duty and at risk of contracting Covid-19.
He said the union had also taken additional steps, including making proposals to the government’s national nerve centre, to mitigate the situation.
“Our proposals also take into account the fact that the provision of the PPEs and sanitisers to protect health care and other supportive staff, in an environment lacking other critical interventions to protect community members, would on its own not be adequate.” “Unfortunately, to date the department is still not forthcoming with such a plan, let alone the fact that in many health care centres there is still no delivery of the PPEs, sanitisers and other preventive paraphernalia to protect workers and patients from cross-infections in health care centres.”
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