Go-slow At Maclear Hospital Continues
Workers at Maclear Hospital in Nqanqarhu in the Eastern Cape have embarked on a go-slow. They are complaining about heavy workloads due to severe staff shortages.
The workers claim they have raised the matter with the Health Department in the province, but nothing has been done to address it.
The go-slow at Maclear Hospital has been continuing for over two weeks.
A representative from the Public Servants Association of South Africa, PSA, Thembekile Mgedezi says that the labour, maternity and mental units at the hospital are severely short-staffed.
The functions of this hospital are more than the establishment. They introduced the maternity unit without an establishment. Now we have to take workers from these two units, that is, in-patient and out-patient, to make maternity to function. Also, the mental health that is 72 hours, they introduced without sitting us down and telling us. Without documentation, nothing they produced. Theyre just forcing us to work.
