The turmoil erupted when health service providers were renegotiating an arrangement to have the hospital arrange transport for them during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Two Free State nurses were shot dead by police with rubber bullets, trade union Nehawu claims. However, the police say they know nothing about it. Stock photo.Police shot two nurses from the Bongani Regional Hospital in Welkom during a scuffle, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union alleged on Tuesday. The nurses, according to Khauhelo Mnqibisa, regional secretary of Nehawu, were in a meeting with their CEO when police stepped in.
“It was not a strike. When lockdown started, the employer agreed to provide transport for our members to come to work. “But yesterday [Monday] things changed. We learnt this arrangement was changed. They were compelled to travel on their own from last night,” Mnqibisa said. This must be one of the saddest days in the SA lockdown history. I am informed the nurses at Bongani Regional Hospital, Welkom are protesting bcs they have to work without PPEs, they were being dispersed by the police with stun grenades and rubber bullets. My heart is bleeding.
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