A nurse prepares a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
Classes were halted at Henrietta Stockdale Nursing College. This comes after disgruntled nursing students and their lecturers took to the streets. They accuse the department of years of failing to address their challenges at the college. “Our living conditions are unacceptable since the first year we’ve been struggling to get books. They expect us to pass without books. At our residence now we don’t have water, electricity is going down but they expect us to study. We get low-class food,” complains Nursing student, Ziola Beukes.
“We are solely in support of the student nurses and the fellow lecturers who are fellow colleagues who are facing a problem that is definitely can be a total closure of nursing education institution which is the nursing college and that is the only nursing college within the province and then when we are facing that problem maybe there won’t be any production of any healthcare workers within the province,” says Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union, National organiser, Kagiso Phajane.
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