Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union calls on government to bare travel
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With the increase of Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in South Africa, the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union (YNITU) is calling on the government to effect a travel ban to adequately deal with the pandemic. Failure to do so, YNITU will withdraw the labour of our nurses from the front line.
![Media Statement
For Immediate Release
Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union calls on government to bare travel
Saturday, 14 March 2020
[2020 Year of the Nurse]
Media Statement
With the increase of Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in South Africa, the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union (YNITU)
is calling on the government to effect a travel ban to adequately deal with the pandemic. Failure to do so, YNITU
will withdraw the labour of our nurses from the front line.
We have heard of nurses from a clinic in Sedibeng who came in contact with a person who was confirmed to
have the virus. The patient went to the clinic and was referred to a hospital but at the hospital, the patient was
discharged and was told its just minor flu. This despite the patient having indicated that they had come in
contact with a person from Italy. The patient later came back and it was only during that time that they
diagnosed them and put them into isolation.
YNITU has always maintained from the beginning when the minister said the country’s ports of entry are
secured and there is nothing to worry about that the borders should be closed and travel bared until the
pandemic is contained.
YNITU is aware that cases keep rising daily and contact also increases but on the ground, the frontline staff
remains un-workshopped, untrained and not competent to deal with the virus. Our government has still not
come out strong to say what are their decisive measures to put in place to ensure that we clamp down and
contain the virus.
We are in trouble as a country. YNITU has been saying this from day one and how things are unfolding currently,
it’s clear that we are not getting out of it any time soon. We have noted the government statement that the
President will be meeting with members of his cabinet on Sunday to discuss what other measures to put in
place.
This is something they should have done from the get-go and we would be sitting with lesser cases. Currently,
the department of health is failing in the tracing of patients which is now starting to put the lives of nurses and
doctors at risk. This can’t continue to happen. The government must act now to safeguard all South Africans and
the nurses and doctors in the frontline. Travel should be banned until such a time that the pandemic is under
control. If not, then our members will not be rendering services. This is not a threat but an undertaking.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/ynitupressstatementcloseborders-200314195111/85/Young-Nurses-Indaba-Trade-Union-calls-on-government-to-bare-travel-1-320.jpg?cb=1584215752)
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- 1. Media Statement For Immediate Release Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union calls on government to bare travel Saturday, 14 March 2020 [2020 Year of the Nurse] Media Statement With the increase of Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in South Africa, the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union (YNITU) is calling on the government to effect a travel ban to adequately deal with the pandemic. Failure to do so, YNITU will withdraw the labour of our nurses from the front line. We have heard of nurses from a clinic in Sedibeng who came in contact with a person who was confirmed to have the virus. The patient went to the clinic and was referred to a hospital but at the hospital, the patient was discharged and was told its just minor flu. This despite the patient having indicated that they had come in contact with a person from Italy. The patient later came back and it was only during that time that they diagnosed them and put them into isolation. YNITU has always maintained from the beginning when the minister said the country’s ports of entry are secured and there is nothing to worry about that the borders should be closed and travel bared until the pandemic is contained. YNITU is aware that cases keep rising daily and contact also increases but on the ground, the frontline staff remains un-workshopped, untrained and not competent to deal with the virus. Our government has still not come out strong to say what are their decisive measures to put in place to ensure that we clamp down and contain the virus. We are in trouble as a country. YNITU has been saying this from day one and how things are unfolding currently, it’s clear that we are not getting out of it any time soon. We have noted the government statement that the President will be meeting with members of his cabinet on Sunday to discuss what other measures to put in place. This is something they should have done from the get-go and we would be sitting with lesser cases. Currently, the department of health is failing in the tracing of patients which is now starting to put the lives of nurses and doctors at risk. This can’t continue to happen. The government must act now to safeguard all South Africans and the nurses and doctors in the frontline. Travel should be banned until such a time that the pandemic is under control. If not, then our members will not be rendering services. This is not a threat but an undertaking.
- 2. Released by: YOUNG NURSES INDABA TRADE UNION (YNITU) Contact Persons: Lerato Madumo-Gova President 0114921537 0842532682 leratogova@ynitu.org.za www.ynitu.org.za Rich Sicina General Secretary 0114921537 0769017903 richsicina@ynitu.org.za www.ynitu.org.za