ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—The Grenada authorities says that public sector hospitals will function as statutory our bodies as of January 1 subsequent 12 months.
Well being Minister Phillip Telesford mentioned the 1998 Grenada Hospitals Authority Act could be the authorized framework for eradicating the present public hospital providers from direct administration from the Ministry of Well being.
“The hospital, working underneath the present assemble, has failed and can proceed to fail,” mentioned Telesford, who described the state of public well being providers as one in an emergency.
He mentioned the federal government must take pressing motion to treatment the emergency.
“The present assemble has failed, and we’d like a authorities with braveness, information, and a imaginative and prescient to make this occur. We aren’t going to take a seat again and, due to political expediency, refuse to statutory the hospital,” Telesford mentioned.
Talking on a tv programme right here on Sunday, Telesford, who grew to become Well being Minister following the January Cupboard reshuffle, mentioned the federal government will implement the 1998 laws in January 2025.
“After 50 years of a bureaucratic system that failed us on the common hospital, it’s time to make a daring choice. We can’t simply apply politics and neglect concerning the folks. That is about saving lives, and the time has come for us to statutory our hospital.
“Our intention and intention is to get a reliable board of administrators by January 1, 2025, and to get a reliable set of managers who will work alongside the Board and with the present Chief Medical Officer, Administrators of Hospital Companies, and different competent employees to rework healthcare in Grenada,” mentioned the Well being Minister.
The 1998 laws gives the legislative foundation for the institution powers and duties of the Grenada Hospitals Authority. In line with the 26-year-old legislation, the Authority shall, in accordance with the coverage, as decided by the Board, after session with the Minister, handle the hospital amenities in Grenada and set up new hospital amenities occasionally.
The powers and duties of the Authority embody managing hospital amenities; Offering environment friendly programs for the supply of well being care; offering using hospitals for service, instructing, and analysis; collaborating with acknowledged coaching establishments within the schooling and coaching of individuals and in analysis, drugs, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, bio-medical and well being science fields and negotiating with commerce unions regarding phrases and situations of its workers.
Teesford instructed viewers of The Bubb Report that the federal government will make use of foreign-based nurses to fill the shortages within the present system.
“We must discover a solution to import, within the brief time period, nurses into Grenada as a result of the speed at which now we have seen the exodus of nurses through the years has created a direct downside for many who are within the system,” he mentioned, with out figuring out the nationalities into account to be supplied these jobs.
“There may be an acute scarcity of medical professionals within the system, so now we have to discover a solution to appeal to assets to work there,” he added.
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