Gerogetown : The health sector is currently preparing for its greatest influx of nurses in a matter of months which is expected to help strengthen the level of professionalism in the public health sector. This notion was recently amplified by Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, during an interview. He revealed that at the moment there are just under 1,000 nurses in training at various stages. The current training, the Minister said, represents the largest batch of nurses that have ever been trained at one time, a move which indicates that the government is serious about investing in qualified human resources. “We have done a lot of training, so it is not only infrastructural investment we are doing, and so we expect to see a significant influx of nurses in the sector soon,” the Minister asserted. This strategic investment, he said, is premised on the need to obtain value for every dollar spent, adding that “we intend to get maximum benefit for the Guyanese people from this investment…We have to look at the way we manage and we have to look at the labour discipline among this expanded labour force.” As part of this ever he said that efforts will be made to address the issue of punctuality of professionals within the health sector pointing out that not all is satisfactory when it comes to the punctuality and attendance of highly and expensively trained personnel. “We still have complaints about doctors turning up late at the health centers and leaving early; this is a management issue and it is also a work ethic issue that we are looking at.”
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