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Unwrapping major salary hikes for the Health Sector

Jan 27, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

There first of all appears to be a preference for Midwives and Pharmacists. Initially however, reference is made to 5,000 medical professionals starting with Medical Interns whose respective minimum salaries have been raised.

Next Specialists Doctors have also benefitted. Those specified include: Gynaecologists, Neurosurgeons, Dermatologists, Orthopedicts’.

Meantime it is not certain whether the following are included:

Grade 10

Medical Officer

Senior Departmental Sister

Senior Analytical Scientific Officer

Grade 9

Junior Departmental Sister

Supervisor Gum Clinic

Surveillance Officer

Medical Registrar

Grade 8

Senior Veterinary Officer

Public Health Inspector

Traumatology Technologist

With respect to the Nursing Sorority, one wonders whether the following positions have been included in the special adjustments.

Grade 10

Matron 1&11

Senior Departmental Sister

Grade 9

Junior Departmental Sister

Grade 8

Ward Sister, as is Medex.

Then it is uncertain whether the following are deemed eligible for the additional adjustment.

Grade 7

Environmental Health Officer

Social Worker (Health).

And are these included as Allied Health Workers?

Grade 6

Dental Tender

Medical Laboratory Technician

Dormitory Supervisor

Grade 2

Laboratory Aide

Mortuary Maid

Senior Hospital Porter

Hospital Gateman.

But the Health Sector, so glibly mentioned, is more comprehensive an organisational structure than is portrayed. How many know of a) Policy Development and Administration, that is staffed from Chief Medical Officer (Grade 14) to Registry Officer (Grade 6)

  1. b) Disease Control.

Director of Communicable Diseases (Grade 12) to Tuberculosis Field Supervisor (Grade 6)

  1. c) Family Health Care Services

Deputy Chief Nursing Officer (12) to Medex (6)

  1. d) Regional Clinical Services.

Manager, Regional Clinical Services (9) to Admin Assistant (6) Coordinator Health Promotion (12) to Medex (6). e) Then there are in Health Services, Education, Standards & Technical Services; Disability and Rehabilitation Services, a comparable range of competencies, above all of whom one must enquire whether they were considered eligible for comparable salary adjustments.

What emerges as a very fundamental policy of all administrations is that there is no intention in the future to create a compensation system that recognises and reward individual performance. Human beings have become merely as bulk producers, with their constitutional rights to be represented by Unions that have become irrelevant, albeit in an environment which indicates minimal competencies related to compensation management.

The use of Salary Scales has been comprehensively ignored and become totally mythical. It was Sir Fenton Ramsahoye who would caution that ‘there’ are two things a man does not know. One is that he does not know that he does not know?

Does that observation apply to the teachers in the most critical education sector where teachers train the future of the Health Sector.

Sincerely,

E.B. John

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