DEAR Editor,-
In response to the letter sent to the editor in last week’s Herald regarding the clinic staff being rude, it really is so disappointing that we find people in professions only because they need a salary. They have no passion for what they do.
I was there at the time of the incident and had spoken to the ‘Discouraged mother’ and could see how upset she was. We waited for over an hour because some nurses had lunch breaks that carried on for well over an hour.
We had to keep asking for assistance because nobody was attending to us. It’s as if we were invisible sitting there, but it was just two of us waiting for our babies’ immunisation.
When I had seen the immunisation nurse with my baby, I was also told that they do not do immunisations after 2pm on a Friday. When I had told her that I had communicated with Ashnee Moodley (who is in charge of the clinic) and she had advised me that going after 2pm on a Friday is perfectly fine, since it is much quieter then, the nurse responded to me by saying: “I can’t see why she had told you that because it’s legislation.” I mean, which legislation states no immunisation after 2pm on a Friday?
When I was eventually done, it was around 3:45pm – but what I did notice at that time is that the clinic was empty and all the nurses were leaving. So basically, it seems that, on Fridays, nurses at the borough clinic make their own rules because they want to leave early.
S CHETTY
Port Shepstone
