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Health Services Board executive director Ms Ruth Kaseke said they would start employing the nurses upon completion of their courses. There had been a backlog of trained nurses who were not employed since 2009.
“Some of them have since been deployed while others are yet to be placed at respective health institutions,” said Ms Kaseke.
“The process has taken long because there are people who registered at institutions of their choice while they also appear in registers at schools they trained. It means these people appeared twice in our registers as unemployed.”
Ms Kaseke said they were picking up and sorting out the irregularities, but described the process as cumbersome.
She said from the 2 080 posts freed by Treasury, about 1 800 had since been filled. Ms Kaseke said the HSB was hoping deployment of the remaining nurses would not take long so that by the time the next group completes training, there would not be any backlogs of unemployed trained nurses.
The next group is expected to complete training this month. Ms Kaseke said unemployed nurses should not lose hope of being employed because the deployment was a process which would result in everyone eventually getting employed. She said vacant posts left through resignations, deaths or retirement would now be quickly filled.
“The turnaround period is now shorter than before when it would take longer to fill a post left vacant by death, retirement or resignation.” said Ms Kaseke.
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