• Unemployed nurses and mid wives will now be paying K100 from the K378.
• The move is also one way of empowering members in terms of the take home pay.
• Members were having a tough time to pay for license fees

Zambia Union of Nurses Organization (ZUNO) says government’s decision to reduce annual fees for renewal of practicing certificates for nurses and midwives increase their take home pay.

Speaking in an interview with Money FM News, Union General Secretary Fray Michelo said the reduction in license fees is a step in the right direction because the nurses and midwives were having a tough time to pay, resulting in so many defaulters.

Mr. Michelo stated that the move is also one way of empowering members in terms of the take home pay because it was becoming expensive for them to manage to pay the annual fees.

“We are actually very happy and we welcome that reduction, because if we look at how much it was, our members were having a tough time to pay for license fees and we were ending up having defaulters.”

“So to avoid having defaulters, it is better to make it affordable, and I think it is a good move that the Minister has undertaken because it’s also in line with empowering our members in terms of the take home pay because annually it was becoming expensive for our members to manage,” Mr. Michelo said.

Government has with immediate effect reduced the annual fees for renewal of practicing certificates for nurses and midwives.

Unemployed nurses and mid wives will now be paying K100 from the K378.