More nurses join strike

Clifford Santudu, chair of Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions (BOFEPUSU) in Serowe region, said yesterday that they have recorded 36 more nurses joining the ongoing national strike. He said prior to the dismissal letters given to nurses across the country, very few nurses in their area were part of the strike.

Santudu said that they had followed the nurses and doctors to their houses over the weekend to convince them to join the strike. The doctors asked for time to check their contracts before they could join the strike. "I don't know what they have decided so far because they did not come today," he said.