Govt Orders Nurses To Pay Back Allowances
Published: 2016 May 10 06:43:06 (6322 Views)
Nurses operating as midwives in hospitals have been ordered to repay allowances that they received following their movement from maternity wards to other departments to cover up for the acute staff shortage affecting hospitals.
Midwives in the Health and Child Care Ministry receive $177 allowances every three months from the Health Transition Fund (HTC), a move that is meant to motivate them and reduce maternal and newborn mortality in the country.
However, some of the midwives have been ordered to deposit the allowances that they received for the last quarter in their hospital accounts, after they were moved from maternity wards due to shortages of nurses.
The president of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Midwives (ZICOM), Lilian Dodzo, said the decision was demoralising.
Dodzo said there was no guarantee that the money would be used for its intended purposes by the health institutions.
She appealed to the ministry for a separate midwifery establishment to reduce the movement of midwives from maternity wards to general wards, which creates unnecessary staff shortages.
Some of the affected nurses who declined to be named told a local publication that they would not return the money because they were still in the system and it was not their choice to be moved from the maternity wards.
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa acknowledged that there were irregularities in the handling of the HTF funds, adding that a committee had been set up to look into the issue.
He could not be drawn to reveal the number of affected midwives, saying the committee would compile a report.
- Chronicle
Midwives in the Health and Child Care Ministry receive $177 allowances every three months from the Health Transition Fund (HTC), a move that is meant to motivate them and reduce maternal and newborn mortality in the country.
However, some of the midwives have been ordered to deposit the allowances that they received for the last quarter in their hospital accounts, after they were moved from maternity wards due to shortages of nurses.
The president of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Midwives (ZICOM), Lilian Dodzo, said the decision was demoralising.
Dodzo said there was no guarantee that the money would be used for its intended purposes by the health institutions.
She appealed to the ministry for a separate midwifery establishment to reduce the movement of midwives from maternity wards to general wards, which creates unnecessary staff shortages.
Some of the affected nurses who declined to be named told a local publication that they would not return the money because they were still in the system and it was not their choice to be moved from the maternity wards.
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa acknowledged that there were irregularities in the handling of the HTF funds, adding that a committee had been set up to look into the issue.
He could not be drawn to reveal the number of affected midwives, saying the committee would compile a report.
- Chronicle
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