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The entrance of the Dora Nginza Hospital.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union has advised its members at Dora Nginza Hospital in Gqeberha to return to work following a strike last week.
Healthcare workers had downed tools, citing being overworked due to an influx of patients from other non-operational facilities.
The Department of Health has since obtained a court interdict against the strike.
NEHAWU provincial secretary Mlungiseleli Ncapayi says the union is engaging workers to resume duties.
“We have started engaging our workers and our members so that they are going back now to work and restore the services, whilst they are allowing ourselves at a leadership level of all the unions that are involved to make sure that we will resolve all the challenges that are there,” says Ncapayi.
He criticised the department for failing to address concerns earlier.
“But from where we are seated now, we are deeply disappointed that the department has allowed things to reach this point whereby workers had to express their frustration through this manner in which they have done,” he added.
The union says discussions are ongoing to resolve the issues raised by workers.
