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Attention student nurses: check your indemnity status from January to May
Circular to be sent to Nursing Service Managers and Learner Movement representatives (via DENOSA provinces):
Message to student nurses: Check your indemnity status between January and May
Following the analysis of the organisation’s cash inflow trend, DENOSA would like to appeal to student nurses in both public and private nursing institutions to check their indemnity status with the organisation between January and May.
Due to government budgetary processes and financial year period, PERSAL does not recognise most students during this period (January and May, mostly when students are to do their next year of study, or commence community service), and this means that students may not be indemnified.
DENOSA urges students to check their membership status with DENOSA, and if they have not paid via PERSAL to pay cash until government’s financial year commences in April when PERSAL once again recognizes student nurses and therefore payment is made via PERSAL as per the norm.
The danger with this is that, should something happen during the time when a student has not paid the membership fee, the indemnity may not be able to pay on behalf of the student concerned.
For any nurse to touch a patient, that nurse must be indemnified first. We would like to appeal to Nursing Service Managers at institutions to all look into this matter urgently and ensure that students don’t get the surprise of their life when a disaster happens that they have not been indemnified for the period concerned.
We hope this finds the urgency it deserves.
Office of the General Secretary: DENOSA
