'I can't risk my life for nothing': KZN healthcare graduates angry over lack of Covid-19 stipends

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'I cant risk my life for nothing': KZN healthcare graduates angry over lack of Covid-19 stipends | TheMercurySA Day19ofLockdown Covid19InSA

In its appeal for volunteers, the department called on student doctors, unemployed health professionals, retired health practitioners and emergency personnel who are not employed by the department to come forward.

Qualified nurse Samkelo Jiyane said she was a$mong 240 professional nurses who were trained by the Department of Health through bursary studies, in terms of which they were meant to be appointed permanently after training.She said they were told that the department did not have funded posts to hire them.

“There will be no financial incentive for this category of workers. The department is finalising its needs analysis study, which ultimately determines the category, number and location of health care workers who will be formally recruited to bolster its human resources.”

 

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