Unworthy Health Workers

Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:51

Written by Boima J. V. Boima

As the government tries to offer better salaries and incentives to motivate health workers and teachers in the country, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Walter Gweningale says some health workers in the country are unworthy for the current pay offered in the sector. He made the declaration Friday during his budget hearing with the joint legislative committee at the Capitol Building. ‘’You’re talking about motivation madam...the people (health workers) are not even worthy for what they are getting. I am respecting you people…I’m just telling you facts,” physician Gweningale, who headed Phebe Hospital for decades and served as chief medical officer for Bong county, insisted. Dr. Gweningale underrated “some health workers” after Sen. Geraldine Doe-Sheriff inquired about the welfare of health workers, including medical doctors and nurses making sacrifices throughout the country, but cry they are “underpaid.” But the health minister repeated that some health workers are not qualified for benefits they receive. “Some of you people who go to the hospital… sometimes you are in the hospital and your nurse is lying down sleeping. That’s the point I was trying to make,” Dr. Gweningale said in an explanation that borders on work attitude rather than qualification.