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Nursing Assistants in limbo at Linden

Apr 22, 2009 News

All is certainly not well at the Linden Hospital Complex, as doctors and auxiliary staff at the institution continue their sit-in to protest the nonpayment of monies due to them for overtime work.
The staff claims that the money has been due for the last couple of months. Trained Nursing Assistants, who were registered on December 12, last, after completing a two-year training programme at the Charles Rosa School of Nursing, still have not been appointed by the Ministry of Health, and as such are still only receiving the $16,000 per month stipend, according to reports..
According to informed sources, ever since the Nursing Assistants began their training in February 2007, they were mandated to sign contracts to serve the government for five years, and their passports were stamped.
Today, four months after becoming qualified and eligible for employment, the nurses have been told that there are no vacancies!
“Why train so many nurses, when there are no vacancies for them?” a perturbed Nursing Assistant asked angrily.
The nurses were also reportedly told that the new hospital, which is nearing completion, “has no place for nursing assistants”.
“We do a lot of work at this hospital, running the wards, when Staff Nurses are not there, and even when they are there. A lot of times they are right there, but yet is we carrying the “steam” while they drawing the big fat salaries and all we getting is a paltry $16,000 stipend. Tell me how that could be fair?”
“They telling us they don’t have vacancy. This is real eye pass, because we already doing the job,” another Nursing Assistant complained.
Regional Health Officer, Dr Pansy Armstrong should have received the names of the Nursing Assistants even before they had completed training, to facilitate the placement process, but only recently a Placement Unit was set up for that purpose, according to reports.

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