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The nurses’s plight
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| A demonstrating nurse in Zimbabwe |
Some graduates have since resorted
to temporary teaching due to lack of employment, while others are jobless. It
has become of public concern, with a recent report that there are an estimated 4000
jobless nurses. Especially given that over 2000 graduate nurses country wide
are bonded by government, as such remain jobless because of the job freeze
policy that was effected in 2010, hence pushing health institutions to froze
recruitment. It is for this reason that graduate nurses have once petitioned
the Ministry of health and child welfare demanding to be released from the
bonds and be allowed to seek employment elsewhere.
However, Herald health reporter, Paidamoyo Chipunza, on
sartuday reported that the government confirmed that unemployed trained nurses
should register for deployment at the nursing schools they trained following
the unfreezing of over 2000 posts for registered general nurses.
Health and child welfare minister, Madzorera said in total
there are over 2000 registered posts that are now available and that they will
fill these vacancies with trained and qualified nurses who qualified a long
time ago, beginning from 2009, 2010 and 2011 before they take those who
qualified in 2012.
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