More than 400 Gauteng interns and community service doctors have not been paid their January salaries.
In a media statement the Head of Department of Health MkhululiLukhele, confirmed that junior doctors are supposed to be paid on the last day of the month. He admitted that the department of health failed to pay them on time. Lukhele assured the new graduates that they would be paid by 7th of February.
According to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital, the junior doctors received a message saying“Kindly note that your salary will not be paid on 31 January 2019 due to the late creation of posts at Central Office. The posts were created 22 January 2019 in the afternoon. Unfortunately, it was not enough time for e-Government to process them before the salary run on 28 January 2019 therefore, your salaries will be paid on/before 28 February 2019,” it added.
The Gauteng health department’s chief human resources director Sipho Senabe says technical errors by payroll administrators are behind the repeated delays. He confirmedthat all doctors will be paid.
