President Irfaan Ali last night announced that effective from January 1, 2023, salaries will be increased significantly for professionals in the health sector with midwives and pharmacists attracting the biggest hikes in a package that will cost $1.5b annually.
“In order to ensure that the public health care system is able to attract talented young professionals, we will be making salary adjustments to several categories of doctors working in the system,” Ali announced in a live broadcast which was streamed on Facebook.
He said the adjustments to the current minimum salaries are additional to the eight percent across-the-board increase for public servants which was announced last month.
