Kadoma General Hospital Nurses On Go Slow
By Lloyd Mwale in Kadoma
Kadoma General Hospital nurses have joined their countertops across the country to press the government for a review on poor salaries and working conditions.
The industrial action is expected to continue across the country.
When The Observer news crew visited the healthcare institution in the mid afternoon, nurses were on duty in their departments but were working slowly attending only to critical cases mainly in the maternity wing.
In interviews, familiess whose relatives had been admitted at the institution thanked the Kadoma General Hospital nurses for working during the industrial action.
“My relative has been helped to deliver a bouncing baby boy and has been discharged. If those nurses in that department had not been around things would have been complicated, but she has been discharged and I am going to look for a taxi to take her home,” said one unidentified woman.
Another family said that their relative has a premature baby but she is being attended to until infant gains the required weights.
“Our relative is still admitted in the matenity wing as she had a premature baby and is being attended to by the maternity nurses. We have heard that they’re on an industrial action but we want to thank them for the services they’re rending to that vital wing,” said another woman.
However it was different in other departments as nurses were in no-show.
At the Out-Patient wing only one nurse was attending to patients and, in some wards nurses were attending to critical patients only.
Media reports from across the country indicate that nurses have downed tools in what they describe as poor salary increment of US$30.
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) said that its members had resolved for a nationwide industrial action and the association had issued a notice to the government for the work stoppage.
