General News of Wednesday, 29 September 2021Source: classfmonline.comRotational nurses have given the government a two-day ultimatum to pay their allowances else they strike. Additionally, he said they have not been registered biometrically to enable the Controller and Accountant General to effect payment of their allowances. He also said the nurse trainee allowance has stalled for half a year now while some have also been in arrears for about 20 months. He called on the government to pay the allowance since their parents have stopped giving them money for their upkeep with the notion that the allowance is being paid by the government. The Vice-president of the group also called on the government to post the 2019 batch of nurses and midwives, who are still at home, to narrow the one-nurse-to-18-patients ratio.
