
The Botswana Nurses Union (BONU) have given the Ministry of Health and Wellness a total of 30 days to act on ensuring the availability of conducive grounds that will ensure the safety of Nurses in the workplace failure which they will seek alternative routes to get the ministry to act. “A petition is a legal document and we expect the ministry of health and wellness to act in good faith. We have in our possession minutes that prove we have over the time engaged the ministry to no avail hence the petition was our last resort. We have had enough, and when somebody says enough is enough it means they just cannot take it anymore,” BONU President Obonolo Rahube told this publication. BONU members embarked on a peaceful march on Thursday, which started from the GSS grounds in Gaborone to the Ministry of Health headquarters , where BONU President handed over a petition to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Ruth Maphorisa/ The petition comes after a nurse was raped at Extension two Clinic while on duty. It is understood that this is not the first time health workers were attacked on duty at night. “We are gravely…