By Refilwe Mekoa
Copyright sabcnews
Hundreds of members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in Gauteng are expected to march to the provincial Department of Health in Johannesburg on Friday to deliver a memorandum of demands.
The anticipated march dubbed the Provincial Day of Action is said to be related to the crisis currently engulfing the health sector in the province.
Nehawu National Spokesperson Lwazi Nkolonzi says this comes against the background of challenges confronting their members, workers and communities which include amongst others corruption, maladministration and dilapidated infrastructure.
“Nehawu in Gauteng will on Friday the 3rd of October convene a Provincial Day of Action directed to the Department of Health, to deliver a memorandum of demands to the MEC of Health in relation to the crisis currently engulfed in health in the province.”
Nkolonzi says the recent Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report on the Tembisa Hospital also proves chronic failures by the department in addressing challenges confronting healthcare in the province.
The investigation revealed that R2 billion has been lost to tender irregularities and fraud at the hospital.
