adminNurses’ bonding suspended
Harare Bureau
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, suspended the bonding of nurses until it has the capacity to employ them, a senior Government official has said.
Human resources director in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Ms Jane Mudyara, said the suspension would remain in force as long as there is limited absorption capacity within the public health sector.
This will see Government releasing 532 diplomas for registered general nurses (RGNs) and 529 certificates for primary care nurses (PCNs) who were trained since 2009 and are jobless.
The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare yesterday said certificates and diplomas would be issued to nurses that have registered with the ministry that they are not employed.
“Registered general nurses and primary care nurses who graduated between 2009 and 2011 who are still unemployed and registered for the release of their certificates and diplomas with the ministry are requested to collect their diplomas,” the ministry said.
Nurses’ bonding suspended
Harare Bureau
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, suspended the bonding of nurses until it has the capacity to employ them, a senior Government official has said.
Human resources director in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Ms Jane Mudyara, said the suspension would remain in force as long as there is limited absorption capacity within the public health sector.
This will see Government releasing 532 diplomas for registered general nurses (RGNs) and 529 certificates for primary care nurses (PCNs) who were trained since 2009 and are jobless.
The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare yesterday said certificates and diplomas would be issued to nurses that have registered with the ministry that they are not employed.
“Registered general nurses and primary care nurses who graduated between 2009 and 2011 who are still unemployed and registered for the release of their certificates and diplomas with the ministry are requested to collect their diplomas,” the ministry said.
Nkayi bus accident claims two lives
Chronicle Reporter
TWO people died on the spot while 60 others were injured, 10 of them seriously, when a Sihube bus burst its front tyre, veered off the road and overturned at the 23km-peg along Bulawayo-Nkayi Road yesterday.
It took the Bulawayo Fire Brigade nearly three hours to rescue some of the victims due to inadequate equipment.
The bus, which had 74 passengers on board, was coming from Zhombe heading to Bulawayo.
Upon reaching a bridge across Koce River it burst a front tyre and veered off the road before overturning and landing on its roof a few metres from the bridge.
The injured were rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo where some were said to be in a serious condition.
“Some of the injured are in a serious condition while others are stable. I cannot give the figures of those admitted here, you can call the police for more details,” said a senior official from the hospital’s Casualty Department, who declined to be named.
City council concerned over Government debt
Chronicle Reporter
Most Government departments are reportedly not paying their bills to the Bulawayo City Council amid revelations that the departments now owe council more than $5 million.
The city fathers said the development was negatively affecting the local authority’s revenue inflows.
The council is owed about $60 million by both domestic and commercial water consumers.
In February last year the Government paid slightly above $3 million to the city council from the $8,3 million it owed as of December 2010.
According to the council’s latest report, Government departments owe council thousands of dollars each.
Tsvangirai spends holiday in SA with new wife
Harare Bureau
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai spent part of the festive holidays in South Africa with his new wife Ms Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo, contrary to his claims that he terminated the relationship.
Sources said the two caught up in Durban after New Year’s Day and met the PM’s children.
SA intensifies deportation of Zimbabweans
Beitbridge Correspondent
SOUTH Africa which has intensified its crackdown on undocumented Zimbabweans on Thursday deported 672 illegal immigrants, the largest number since the resumption of deportations last October.
The deportees arrived in the country aboard eight luxury buses.
Man dies as fire extinguisher explodes in his hands
Midlands Bureau Chief
A GWERU man died yesterday afternoon when a fire extinguisher he was servicing exploded in his hands.
Hell breaks lose as woman grabs coffin from funeral parlour
Chronicle Reporter
MZILIKAZI residents were treated to a free street movie when a woman stormed a funeral parlour
Civil servants threaten to strike
Harare Bureau
CIVIL servants unions met in Harare yesterday and resolved to storm Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga’s office next week demanding an audience with her over their salaries and conditions of service.
AirZim workers trickle back to work
Harare Bureau
SOME workers at Air Zimbabwe went back to work yesterday, while others absconded following a strike they held on Thursday.