Ministry says nurse who blew whistle on Carol Joseph breached public service rules

The Ministry of Public Health says that the nurse who complained about the abuse of medication by now resigned Region Five Councillor Carol Joseph breached public service rules. It has since sent Nurse Sherlyn Marks’s file to the Department of Public Service for action.

“That matter, as far as I am aware, has been sent to the [Department of] Public Service…. They [the Ministry of Public Health] would have done their investigations and sent it on… since I am told that there are several parts of the … regulations which would have been broken,” Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence told Stabroek News when asked for an update on the matter.

This newspaper contacted Permanent Secretary of the Department of Public Service Reginald Brotherson who promised to give an update on the matter this week.

The sending of Marks’s file to the Department of Public Service will be