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#BringBackOurNurses campaigned launched
19 Apr 2018 at 17:22hrs | Views
Post boxes have been deployed all across Harare to gather citizens' views on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's decision to fire all striking nurses. The boxes have been posted at Africa Unity Square, 1st Street, Parirenyatwa Hospital and more.
Harare-based human rights lawyer and activist Doug Coltart said, "These Post Boxes have been deployed all across Harare to gather citizens' views on Chiwenga's decision to fire all striking nurses. Find them at Africa Unity Square, 1st Street, Parirenyatwa Hospital and more. Find a box and tell the VP what you think. #DearVP #BringBackOurNurses."
THE 15 000 striking nurses at public hospitals yesterday scoffed at their purported summary dismissal from the public service, literally telling Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga who announced the decision in a statement on Tuesday, to go hang.
The nurses downed their tools on Monday demanding an improvement in their working conditions, leading to protracted negotiations before Chiwenga pulled the trigger on Tuesday evening and fired the health professionals for allegedly negotiating in bad faith.
Government yesterday stood its ground and even wrote to various hospital chief executive officers and provincial medical directors, urging them to urgently rehire retired nurses and unemployed nursing graduates to cover "gaps created by the dismissals".
Harare-based human rights lawyer and activist Doug Coltart said, "These Post Boxes have been deployed all across Harare to gather citizens' views on Chiwenga's decision to fire all striking nurses. Find them at Africa Unity Square, 1st Street, Parirenyatwa Hospital and more. Find a box and tell the VP what you think. #DearVP #BringBackOurNurses."
THE 15 000 striking nurses at public hospitals yesterday scoffed at their purported summary dismissal from the public service, literally telling Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga who announced the decision in a statement on Tuesday, to go hang.
Government yesterday stood its ground and even wrote to various hospital chief executive officers and provincial medical directors, urging them to urgently rehire retired nurses and unemployed nursing graduates to cover "gaps created by the dismissals".
These Post Boxes have been deployed all across Harare to gather citizens' views on Chiwenga's decision to fire all striking nurses. Find them at Africa Unity Square, 1st Street, Parirenyatwa Hospital and more. Find a box and tell the VP what you think. #DearVP #BringBackOurNurses pic.twitter.com/1FeQAK6DUP
— Doug Coltart ✊🏽🇿🇼 (@DougColtart) April 19, 2018
Source - twitter
