South Africa’s public health sector strikes often pit two rights against each other – the right of workers to strike and the rights of people to access healthcare services. Ufrieda Ho explores these tension points with the help of several relevant experts.
‘Where are the doctors?’ we asked. One of the women shrugged, waving at the large numbers of Nehawu protesters in the hospital parking lot by way of explanation. Nothing more was said, and we were asked to leave.
Clinical teams are being targeted by sjambok-wielding protesters to stop all care, and health workers are sending SOS messages while trying to work in insurmountable conditions, as the countrywide Nehawu wage strike enters its second day. Clinical teams are being targeted by sjambok-wielding pr.
Day two of the interdicted Nehawu strike continued to rumble and burn on Tuesday, leaving dead bodies, exhausted workers and hungry and untreated patients in its wake.
Patients help themselves to morphine, bodies in the corridors, premature babies go hungry Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein on nursing strike, day two.