Nurses to march over poor safety in clinics
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) in Tshwane is set to march to highlight issues facing nurses and student nurses.
The march is set to take place on Thursday.
Denosa’s Tshwane regional secretary Mogomotsi Seleke says healthcare workers are offered little support in the district.
“Some of the challenges that nurses are faced with in the Tshwane district, which are similar challenges in other districts in the country, include a severe shortage of nurses and working equipment in clinics which affects the quality of healthcare services to communities.
“Continuing water supply interruptions to clinics, which affects the delivery of critical healthcare services in critical areas like trauma/emergency and deliveries, poor safety in clinics, which often leads to attacks and robberies of both healthcare staff and patients.”
Seleke says health and safety protocols are also not heeded at clinics.
Student nurses are expected to highlight issues affecting universities and colleges throughout the country.
“The delays in the accreditation of nursing education institutions across the country by SANC for them to be able to offer new nursing curriculum and the impact this is having on the drastically low numbers of nurses that the country produces,” says Seleke.
The non-absorption of nurses upon completion of their community service and the deteriorating and neglected infrastructure of nursing education institutions that produce the current crop of nursing cadre.”
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