“The firing of cleaners, Porters, kitchen Staff and others whose salaries are way below the poverty line in these trying times, is testimony to the uncaring nature of the PPP regime to our people most in need,” Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueira stated on Facebook.
Controversial Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) CEO Mr. Rudy Small has reportedly written to close to a hundred employees of the Hospital, informing them that their contracts will not be renewed come June 1, 2022.
This was confirmed by the Regional Representative and APNU+AFC MP Figueira. Figueira in his post noted that the Linden Hospital is currently understaffed and that doctors and nurses are working beyond the 40 hours per week.
He is calling on the CEO to seek to have more efficient management of the hospital, ensuring that the hospital is equipped with adequate staff and materials for them to work with instead of creating a toxic work environment.
The Ministry of Health, back in March of last year was forced to remove Small from the chair of CEO following massive protest from doctors and nurses at the institution for defamatory remarks he made at a press conference.
Small was quoted in the press as claiming that some of the night duty nurses at the hospital would often report for duty, but then leave the hospital to go out with their “sweetman”, before returning in the morning.
That statement received immediate backlash from the hospital’s nurses who called the comment false, damaging, and disrespectful. Many of them had taken to social media to express their dissatisfaction. Small was later reinstated to the position of CEO by the permanent Secretary Ministry of Health.
Since then, the hospital has seen an exodus of over 50 nurses, and others are desirous of leaving while the nursing school is not accepting applications from students in Linden / Region 10, Figueira claims.
The MP is questioning, that in a community with over 65% unemployment and a consistently high cost of living that continues to be a burden on the lives of countless residents, this is what this installed and uncaring regime is doing.
Moreover, the visit several weeks ago by the Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo and his team of shipped supporters to Linden, making their usual sugar-coated speeches and empty promises of which “800 JOBS” were to be made available in “two weeks” is now met with this unwarranted and inhumane act of firing a number of poor, single-parent women by their henchman, CEO Small.
Fortunately, the Demerarawaves recently reported that the Health Ministry has again intervened and has rescinded the termination letters. Figueira had urged the administration to correct what he called a wicked and uncalled-for act and let the people of Linden breathe.
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