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DENOSA’s President Simon Hlungwani has called on government to insource surveillance security to clinics that operate for 24-hours.

This after two nurses were abducted, robbed and raped last week by an armed assailant at the Chuene Clinic outside Polokwane in Limpopo while on duty.

Hlungwani was speaking at the union’s three-day Provincial Congress in Benoni, Ekurhuleni.

Delegates from all five regions of the province converged to discuss nursing-specific issues, as well as the safety and security of nurses in healthcare facilities.

Hlungwani says panic buttons are urgently needed.

“With regards to security we are saying as DENOSA, there must be adequate security, surveillance cameras to see the movement of what is happening in and out of the clinic at a particular point. To address the security challenges, we are calling on the government to insource security so that they get control of how the security must conduct themselves. We need the whole system of the clinic to have a panic button that is responsive and talking to the police.”