Despite being called by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to discuss the settlement of its members’ over 11-month allowance arrears, the Rotational Nurses and Midwives Association (RNMA) has stated that it will not back down from its planned demonstration on June 30.
The group stated that the demonstration would take place in order to protest the delay in payment of allowances to rotational nurses and midwives.
The RNMA has been pressuring the government in recent months to pay all outstanding allowances owing to its members, as current economic hardships have taken their toll.
According to Jasper Dzorkah, President of the RNMA, in an interview with Citi News, the demonstration was planned if their issues were not addressed.
“As I speak with you, our juniors have just been posted, and they will start their rotation on July 3. They are going to take over the hunger, the frustration, the hardship, and the depression that we have been through. These nurses are also owed 11 months of their trainee allowances, yet they have been posted to take over from us.
“So we are demonstrating against these things. These students must not go through what we are going through right now.”
