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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989

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"IT IS CLEAR

OF SERVICE,

INCLUDING

THAT THE GOVERNMENT

MUST PROVIDE TERMS AND

WHICH PROMOTION PROSPECTS,

THOSE DOCTORS

ARE

WHO

AND

CONDITIONS ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH TO RETAIN IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE

REWARDING PROFESSIONALLY FIND SERVICE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR MORE MORE SATISFYING PERSONALLY THAN PRIVATE PRACTICE," HE SAID.

MR CHAU OUTLINED THE PROGRESS MADE 30 FAR IN

IN THIS REGARD WHICH PACKAGE OF IMPROVEMENTS ANNOUNCED THREE MONTHS AGO:

IMPLEMENTING

THE

THE GOVERNMENT

HAD

(A)

74 SENIOR CREATED WITH ADDITION TO THE ORIGINAL 316 POSTS;

MEDICAL OFFICER POSTS

EFFECT FROM

HAVE ALREADY MARCH 1, 1989; THIS IS IN

BEEN

(B)

A PROPOSAL

ΤΟ

PROVIDE

AN HONORARIUM

FOR

(C)

DOCTORS WHO

CONSIDERED LATER IN THE

CONSISTENTLY WORK UNUSUALLY LONG HOURS WILL BE

OF THE COUNCIL BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE

AFTERNOON;

OF ACTION IS PROCEEDING WITH THE CREATION

THE PRESENT POSTS, ON TOP OF

82 POSTS: APPROVAL BY THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES INCLUDING COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL WILL BE SOUGHT IN BETWEEN JUNE AND OCTOBER THIS YEAR.

32 CONSULTANT THE NECESSARY FINANCE THE THREE BATCHES

MR CHAU SAID HE DISAGREED WITH A VIEW THAT THE BEEN MOVING AT A SNAIL'S PACE.

GOVERNMENT HAD

ו

"WE ARE EQUALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE HIGH WASTAGE OF GOVERNMENT NURSES IN THE PAST TWO YEARS AND THE RECENT RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES, MR CHAU CONTINUED.

"OUR NURSES ARE WORKING UNDER GREAT PRESSURE PLACED UPON THEM ARE HEAVY INDEED.

AND THE DEMANDS

11

RELATED PROBLEMS, A NURSING TO ADDRESS THESE AND OTHER

DECEMBER BETWEEN ALLIED GRADES REVIEW COMMITTEE WAS SET UP LAST

OF THE MEDICAL SENIOR MANAGEMENT

AND

THE

AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT

AND

THE

NURSING STAFF.

THE

IDENTIFIED HAS

ΤΟ NEED

CREATE 205 REGISTERED NURSE POSTS, MR CHAU

"SO FAR THE REVIEW NURSING OFFICER II POSTS AND 591 SAID.

IT HAD ALSO RECOMMENDED INCREASING THE STARTING PAY OF NURSES IN ORDER TO ATTRACT MORE RECRUITS.

STUDENT

FINALISED IN TWO MONTHS' "A PACKAGE OF IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE

STANDING COMMISSION ON CIVIL TIME AND, WHERE NECESSARY, PUT TO THE

COMMITTEE SERVICE SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND THE FINANCE OF THIS COUNCIL," HE SAJÚ.

/TURNING TO