LNA alleges receiving death threats, bribery over QMMH nurses’ salaries LNA alleges receiving death threats, bribery over QMMH nurses’ salaries
Limpho Sello
THE Lesotho Nurses Association (LNA’s) executive committee members have claimed receiving death threats and bribery attempts from well-known individuals who wanted to coerce them into ditching their fight for salary increases for Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH).
LNA secretary general ‘Mamonica Mokhesi said this on Thursday after the announcement that former QMMH nurses would next month be absorbed by the government.
Health minister Semano Sekatle on Thursday announced that the government has resolved to absorb 276 former Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) nurses and nursing assistants.
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MASERU-SOME nurse hired by the Ministry of Health to help fight Covid-19 late last year and early this year say they have not been paid.
The government hired 136 nurses in September last year.
Each was to supposed to earn a gross salary of M12 500, according to the government salary payment schedule.
But six months later some of them are yet to receive their dues.
“It is now March and we have not received even a cent,” said one of the nurses who requested anonymity.
“We are trained nurses and we were hoping that the government would have processed our salaries”.
Disgruntled nurses threaten to join their Tšepong counterparts in new strike
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Limpho Sello
THE Lesotho Nurses Association (LNA) has threatened that unless the government addresses their grievances within seven days, the rest of the nursing fraternity will join their Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) counterparts on a strike that could bring the entire health system to a virtual standstill.
The nurses are aggrieved by what they say is the government’s alleged failure to offer nurses “support and protection” thus leaving them “vulnerable to the deadly Covid-19 virus”.
LNA President Raphael Tlali and some of the association’s executive members on Tuesday presented a petition to Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro’s office. They gave the premier seven days to address their grievances, failing which they would take “drastic measures”.
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Limpho Sello THE Lesotho Nurses Association (LNA) has criticised legislators for allegedly ignoring striking Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) nurses’ legitimate salary and welfare grievances. In a strongly worded weekend statement, LNA president, Raphael Tlali, accused MPs of majoring on minor issues when parliament resumed its sittings on 15 February 2021 after a lengthy Christmas […]