Liberia-Health Workers in Liberia have threatened to lock-down the country's health system if the Liberian Government fails to implement the salary reclassification policy for health workers by 2025.
Liberia -Health Workers in Liberia have threatened to lock-down the country's health system if the Liberia n Government fails to implement the salary reclassification policy for health workers by 2025.
According to them, it was the expectation of health workers in Liberia for the implementation of the policy to have kicked-off in January of this year, but up to current they have not gotten any feedback substantial enough from the government to convince their membership that the government is serious in that direction.
Giving a background of the policy, the health workers mentioned that at some point in time in the past regime, one cartridge of the health workers' salary exponentially increased and for that reason they engaged the then government that hired a consultant firm so that they craft a salary policy adding that it all started in 2023 not in isolation, but with support from the Ministry of Health.
They said after six month they wrote the Minister of Health asking about the policy, only for her to say that she has never seen the instrument as well as the CSA Boss, but thankful for them the president for the physician assistant presented a copy of the document to the Minister after which a committee was being setup to craft the roadmap.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
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