POLOKWANE – According to Derick Kganyago, spokesperson for the Limpopo Department of Health, the allegations suggest that because the department are stopping funding towards salaries of home base careers and community health care workers, it will lead towards their retrenchment and job loss.
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“We would like to reassure our communities that these allegations are unfounded and aimed at causing unnecessary panic among those affected,” Kganyago said.
He goes on further to say that the department is in the process of restructuring their NPO funding model and roadshows were conducted in all five districts to explain the process which is aimed at:
1. Increasing the number of community health workers
2. Improving financial management and accountability
3. Regulating the current stipend in line with recent Nedlack agreements of minimum wage.
4. Reduction of wastage by reducing number of NPOs
“The department therefore calls upon all our home base careers and community health care workers not to be misled and wait for the direction from the department,” he concluded.
