Phaahla: Govt considering addition support for strike-hit KZN healthcare
Health Minister Joe Phaahla says the department is considering providing KwaZulu-Natal with additional support amid the ongoing Nehawu strike.
Healthcare workers belonging to the union have entered the second week of their industrial action over pay, which has disrupted services at a number of hospitals and clinics - across the country.
In KZN, striking nurses tried to prevent an ambulance transporting a critical child - from entering Stanger Hospital's trauma unit.
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Phaala says KZN and the Eastern Cape have been badly affected.
"Those are the two provinces we are following up on a regular basis and also reinforcing the security."
