Dear Editor,
There first of all appears to be a preference for Midwives and Pharmacists in the health sector. Initially however, reference is made to 5,000 medical professionals starting with Medical Interns whose respective minimum salaries have been raised. Next, Specialists Doctors have also benefitted. Meantime it is not certain whether the following from Medical Officers to Traumatology Technologists are included. With respect to the Nursing Sorority, one wonders whether the following positions have been included in the special adjustments, from Matron 1&11 to Ward Sister.
Then it is uncertain whether the following are deemed eligible for the additional adjustment: Environmental Health Officers and Social Workers. Then, are these included as Allied Health Workers? Dental Tender, Medical Laboratory Technician, Dormitory Supervisor, Laboratory Aide, Mortuary Maid, Senior Hospital Porter, and Hospital Gateman? But the Health Sector, so glibly mentioned, is more comprehensive an organisational structure than is portrayed. How many know of the Chief Medical Officer, Registry Officer, and Director of Communicable Diseases to Tuberculosis Field Supervisor, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer to Medex, Manager, Regional Clinical Services to Admin Assistant, and Coordinator Health Promotion to Medex?
Then there are in Health Services, Education, Standards & Technical Services; Disability and Rehabilitation Services, a comparable range of competencies, above all of whom one must enquire whether they were considered eligible for comparable salary adjustments. What emerges as a very fundamental policy of all administrations, is that there is no intention in the future to create a compensation system that recognises and reward individual performance. Human beings have become merely as bulk producers, with their constitutional rights to be represented by Unions that have become irrelevant, albeit in an environment which indicates minimal competencies related to compensation management.
The use of Salary Scales has been comprehensively ignored and become totally mythical. It was Sir Fenton Ramsahoye who would caution that ‘there’ are two things a man does not know. One is that he does not know that he does not know? Does that observation apply to the teachers in the most critical education sector where teachers train the future of the Health Sector?
Sincerely,
E.B. John
