Nurses at the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital have joined their colleagues at the University Teaching Hospital by downing tools following government’s failure to meet their demands.
The nurses at the University Teaching Hospital have continued their strike action despite Health Minister Joseph Kasonde ordering them to go back for work.
Yesterday nurses and other medical staff at Livingstone General Hospital joined the strike that is slowly getting out of hand as they hope to press government to address their concerns.
At Levy Mwanawasa hospital the nurses took to idling as they stayed away from their duty posts.
The nurses are demanding the bettering of the four percent salary increment they received despite government having bragged about having offered an up to 200% salary increment.
Naturally, nurses are almost at the foot of the pay chain and government’s claim that lowly paid workers in the civil service would receive the highest percentage would have meant nurses got a better percentage.
Nurses want their K2, 800 monthly salary increased and also want the disparities in the pay roll system corrected.
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