Transition to public service not mandatory, doctors told

A section of the doctors at yesterday’s meeting. (Photo by Keno George)

Doctors working in the public sector will be allowed to complete their current contracts before they are transitioned to the fixed establishment as permanent, pensionable government workers, and transition is not mandatory, it remains a choice that each individual doctor can make.

“Your contract to serve the people of Guyana will not be annulled. Your contract is a legal document and the Government of Guyana respects that legal document. We are not annulling any contract…,” Reginald Brotherson, Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Presidency told the doctors yesterday.

The mostly Cuban-trained doctors gathered at the National Cultural Centre at 9 am yesterday for a meeting with Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence and officials from the Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of the Presidency. The meeting was called in