Denosa: Babies in boxes not nurses’ fault
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa says nurses are not responsible for the newborn babies who were placed in cardboard boxes instead of incubators.
It was reacting to the North West Health Department saying it will take action against nurses involved in the incident at Mahikeng Hospital last week.
Denosa spokesperson Mzwakhe Seleke says the nurses at the hospital have been vocal about the lack of resources.
“If there is anyone to be suspended it is the CEO and the Corporate Service Manager because on the day the nurses reported to the relevant people about the plight and the pressures, they were facing in the ward that day”.
“That ward is a 25 bedded ward but that day they had 56 patients in the ward and only seven nurses to care for them. It’s highly unfair and not possible that those nurses could have issued the highest degree of nursing care, which they tried their best to do.”
Seleke says the nurses had to improvise while waiting for management to sort out the cribs and incubator shortages.
“Those suspension letters were not issued because Denosa put pressure on the management to say that they were illegal.”
Seleke says they continue to communicate with the Department of Health to try find a solution to the issue of lack of resources.
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