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Nurses International Nurses Day provincial celebrations 12 May 2016
Media invitation
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
DENOSA Wishes all nurses in South Africa a Happy International Nurses Day on 12 May 2016…
DENOSA Wishes all nurses in South Africa a Happy International Nurses Day on 12 May 2016, which will be celebrated across provinces and health institutions from tomorrow onwards. This year’s celebration is held under the theme: Nurses: A For Change: Improving health systems’ resilience.
DENOSA President, Simon Hlungwani, Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Premier of Limpopo, Stanley Mathabatha, MEC of Health in Limpopo, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, will attend the Limpopo provincial celebration at Ngoako Ramathlodi Sports Complex in Seshego tomorrow 12 May 2016. The event will commence at 09h00. This event takes place almost a month after a nurse was brutally killed by a psychiatric patient at Hayani Psychiatric Hospital near Thohoyandou.
In Mpumalanga, MEC of Health Gillion Mashego will attend the provincial International Nurses Day celebration at Church on the Hill in Ka Magugu, Nelspruit.
This year’s theme is significant, particular to the South African situation where nurses are faced with many challenges that prevent them from becoming effective
in their work
. These challenges include severe shortage of staff, lack of security, shortage of medication and equipment. These all compromise the quality of healthcare that nurses render, and these often have negative impact on nurses themselves and their morale as well as job satisfaction.
in their work. These challenges include severe shortage of staff, lack of security, shortage of medication and equipment. These all compromise the quality of healthcare that nurses render, and these often have negative impact on nurses themselves and their morale as well as job satisfaction. Lack of security has led to hundreds of nurses being attacked in facilities country-wide, and some had died. Part of this celebration will be to inform stakeholders and community members of DENOSA’s decision that, after many attempts in calling for beefing up of security in our facilities, it will withdraw its nurses in all facilities whose security if still slack if one more nurse gets attacked.
stakeholders and community members of DENOSA’s decision that, after many attempts in calling for beefing up of security in our facilities, it will withdraw its nurses in all facilities whose security if still slack if one more nurse gets attacked. Proceedings in the provincial celebrations will start at 09h00 tomorrow. The media is cordially invited to attend the provincial celebrations tomorrow and report on them. For more information, contact Sibongiseni Delihlazo, DENOSA Communications Manager: 079 875 2663.
at 09h00 tomorrow. The media is cordially invited to attend the provincial celebrations tomorrow and report on them. For more information, contact Sibongiseni Delihlazo, DENOSA Communications Manager: 079 875 2663. DENOSA National Office Bearers (NOBs) have been deployed in different provinces to celebrate this day. Here is the schedule of provincial celebrations that starts tomorrow and which DENOSA National Office Bearer will be deployed in which province:
tomorrow and which DENOSA National Office Bearer will be deployed in which province:
