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SWADNU PRESIDENT CALL FOR UNITY ON NURSES DAY 2021.

 SWADNU President Welcome Mdluli calls for unity amongst nurses in Eswatini and the world in International Nurses Day (12th May) address. 


SWADNU President  Comrade Welcome Mdluli addressing an online commemoration of International Nurses day  on 12th May 2021.


Recently elected President of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union (SWADNU) called for its members  to unite and move forward from its recent turbulent past characterized by internal tensions that ended up in the court system . 

The President made these remarks while addressing members of SWADNU, guests and solidarity partners in an online  commemoration of the International Nurses Day on 12th  May 2021.The meeting was  guest addressed by the 2nd deputy President of the of the Democratic Nurses of South Africa (DENOSA) Comrade Thandeka Rita Msibi.

Comrade President Rita reflected  heavily on the plight of Nurses in the Republic of South Africa with respect to being served with cheap and ineffective  Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) supplied to health workers during the COVID-19 period by corrupt politically connected suppliers. She also lamented about the indifference of the South African government to the demands of public sector workers for a Cost of Living Increment (2020/2021) that had been agreed upon in 2018 as part of the three year wage agreement deal with all public sector workers. Further ,Nurses  had also made demands for extra payment for their service to the South African public during the COVID -19 period. The call for these benefits have been largely ignored by the government up to now.

President Mdluli in his address raised several outstanding matters that SWADNU still needs to deliver to the Nurses of Eswatini in 2021 including stopping the hiring of nurses of fixed term contracts, attending to irregularities with promotions, attending to the lack of equipment and medication from public institutions , attending to governments failure to transport patients to referral sites ,attending to the governments inability to transport nurses to night call duties, pursuing the issue of salary review (2021/2022 financial year) that would resolve challenges such as the pay discrepancies with assistant nurses pay. To the foregoing President Mdluli informed the meeting that the government wanted to renege on the agreement for a salary review. The President then reported that  the  Public Sector Associations (including NAPSAWU,SNAGAPSNAT) had instituted legal proceedings against the government for their reneging on an agreement made between the two parties back in 2018.

Back to the issue of unity. President Mdluli informed the meeting that there were members of SWADNU who had taken SWADNU to court to declare the quadrennial that had elected President Welcome and team illegal. On this issue President Mdluli called for the amicable resolution to differences within the union so that the union preserves the utmost unity for it to win some of the challenges he had outlined.

In their month ,Nurses deserve to be honored for their dedication and service.

SwaziLabourInsight

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