Health department advises nurses to find other jobs
At Tambo Memorial Hospital, 20 nurses will lose their jobs.
More than 200 newly qualified nurses finishing their community service at Gauteng state hospitals face unemployment as they are not being absorbed into permanent posts as happened previously.
According Jack Bloom, MPL and DA Gauteng Shadow Health MEC, the Young Nurses Indaba has compiled a list of 16 out of 36 public hospitals in Gauteng where community service nurses have been told to find employment elsewhere.
The largest number is at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital where 62 nurses’ employment will be terminated at the end of February.
Other hospitals discharging large numbers of nurses include Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Edenvale Hospital, Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, Bertha Gxowa Hospital, Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital, South Rand Hospital, Jubilee Hospital, Tara H Moross Psychiatry Hospital, Tshwane District Hospital, Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital, Kopanong Hospital, Cullinan Care and Rehabilitation Centre and Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital.
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“A total of 216 nurses face unemployment if they cannot get jobs in the private health sector, as the Gauteng health department has advised them to do.
“It makes no sense to spend huge amounts of money on training nurses and then not employing them even though there is a large shortage of nurses in public hospitals.
“This shows yet again the failure of the Gauteng health department caused by poor management and widespread corruption,” Bloom said.
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