Rekha may be acting beyond his competence

Dec 11, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
When I read the news recently that the Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital was asked to proceed on his annual leave, I was shocked because Mr. Michael Khan is one of the most effective administrators that the hospital has ever had.
I later learnt that this edict, which was subsequently overturned, was issued by no other than the newly arrived Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Nirmal Rekha.
Mr. Rekha has been set loose like a pitbull at the Georgetown Public Hospital. His rash and ill-considered decision to ask the CEO to proceed on annual leave was both improper and ironic. It was improper because someone cannot be ordered to proceed on one’s annual leave, and it was ironic because of Mr. Rekha’s own troubled tenure as Secretary to the Treasury.
Even more appalling is the humiliation and embarrassment that such an action would attract from members of the public and from within the hospital itself. Mr. Rekha, who at one time had to be sent on leave for close to a year and a half, ought to have been mindful of the fact that his intemperate decision would sully the good name of a decent man.
Mr. Rekha had no lawful or moral authority to ask the Chief Executive Officer to proceed on his annual leave. He has not only acted improperly by his edict, but he had in the process once again raised questions as to whether he is not put to function in capacities way above his abilities.
R. Dos Santos

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