Health workers fight without fuel

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Community health workers are at the frontline of the fight against Covid-19 in Gauteng, but many have not been paid for months.

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It is Sisanda Kulima’s birthday. Like for most other people, her 2020 birthday celebration is not what she expected it would be. But she hoped she would at least be able to bring a big cake to work to share with the other community health workers at Finetown Clinic, south of Johannesburg.

Kekana added that these workers “have always been important”. “They are anticipated to continue with the activities of health promotion and prevention. They should intensify their role in spreading the messages of lockdown regulations and other health-related information in communities.” first spoke with Kulima the week before the country went into lockdown in March. At the time, community health workers were still fighting to be made permanent employees by the Gauteng department of health.

After a five-year battle to be made permanent employees, Gauteng community health workers were buoyed by the announcement that delayed promises would finally be realised three months into the lockdown. Makhubela says she often goes beyond the call of duty for her job, sometimes even using her car to ferry patients to and from the clinic and spending the whole day there with them on her days off.

The letter is meant to serve as proof to her landlord that she is employed by the Gauteng department of health and will be able to pay her rent when her pay cheque finally comes.

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