Although willing to accept the two-week bonus announced for them by President Irfaan Ali as welcomed assistance, some health care worker do not see it as enough to significantly mitigate the struggles they have already faced or equivalent to the sustained improvement in their working conditions that they have asked for.
On Friday, the Department of Public Information (DPI) shared positive responses from some health care workers to the announced measure, which the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said was arbitrary and did not receive the full input of the union.
Ali announced that all “health care professionals” would be classified as frontline workers and receive a bonus equivalent to two weeks’ pay as part of his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
