Scores of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) workers yesterday joined their counterparts from the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WRDH) and the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) by staging a protest to demand salary increases and better working conditions for all frontline workers.
The workers, who took to the streets outside of the hospital with placards in hand, also threatened to continue protesting and, if necessary, strike, until their concerns are addressed. “All we want is for you to be behind us and these issues have to be resolved and not only for the nurses, for all frontline workers. I have information that a number of health care workers are facing a situation where they are at high-risk. Some of them have been sent home to quarantine and we have discovered that the patients that they were nursing were COVID-19 positive, so when they are saying that a certain set of people are frontline workers. That is nonsense! Everybody here is a frontline worker!” a representative of the protestors said.
