Amid challenges to fill vacancies within the medical sector, and on the heels of the GPHC announcing the need for at least 700 nurses, health minister Dr. Frank Anthony is optimistic that those posts will soon be filled.
At his end-of-year press conference last week, Anthony stated that to address the problem the ministry has worked with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on a staffing plan.
“So the ministry, we have worked with PAHO, and we have done a staffing plan of how many people we would need to address some of the migration that we have and also to address the expansion that we are doing and for each of the new regional hospitals, for example, we have quantified how many people we need. So we have how many specialists, how many registrars, how many GMOs, how many nurses, how many midwives, how many laboratory people. All of it we have quantified, and we have been working to train persons locally to be able to meet those demands”. He said.
