{"id":21704,"date":"2018-11-14T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=21704"},"modified":"2018-11-14T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:15:21","slug":"bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/","title":{"rendered":"BAHAMAS-Doctors planning industrial action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The President of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association President (CPSA) Dr. Locksley Munroe, has warned of possible industrial action over working conditions even as a promise has been made to ensure the healthcare of patients.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are planning to go back to the table on Friday, but we are going back there with our lawyer who is going to basically say to them exactly what is going to be the next step,\u201d said Dr. Munroe, noting that the option open to doctors would be to withdraw their services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He said that the doctors have been outlining their position to the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) for a long time now, highlighting the working conditions and a lack of health insurance. In addition, the doctors said they have not received salary increases over the past 10 years.<\/p>

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The doctors also said that medical procedures had been cancelled because of a malfunctioning air conditioning system.<\/p>

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On October 5, doctors had voted to go on strike and insisted now that the doctors have no choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe meeting (last) Friday was not productive. The CPSA walked away from the table,\u201d he said, adding \u201cthis is sad for us because it truly interferes with our Hippocratic Oath [and] our commitment to professionalism.\u201d<\/p>

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He described the PHA\u2019s recent counterproposal as unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that the CPSA would meet with its members to strategize its withdrawal of services, indicating that the doctors will decide \u201cwhich services will be withdrawn, where it will be withdrawn and whether it\u2019s going to be all done at once or whether we\u2019ll do it in a step-wise manner\u201d.<\/p>

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But he said that the public should not fear a total withdrawal from senior physicians and that while the doctors plan industrial action they will not allow patients to suffer.<\/p>

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\u201cA lot of people are having difficulty saying we\u2019re just going to leave people like that. The public needs to understand that yes, we\u2019re not completely taking away anything. But do not make the assumption that if you turn up around here and there\u2019s no dire emergency, as judged by the physician \u2014 it\u2019s not going to be judged by no administrator whatsoever\u2014 as judged by the physicians, then don\u2019t come around here looking for anything because you\u2019re not going to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The President of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association President (CPSA) Dr. Locksley Munroe, has warned of possible industrial action over working conditions even as a promise has been made to ensure the healthcare of patients. \u201cWe are planning to go back to the table on Friday, but we are going back there with our lawyer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional"],"yoast_head":"\nBAHAMAS-Doctors planning industrial action - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BAHAMAS-Doctors planning industrial action\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The President of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association President (CPSA) Dr. Locksley Munroe, has warned of possible industrial action over working conditions even as a promise has been made to ensure the healthcare of patients. \u201cWe are planning to go back to the table on Friday, but we are going back there with our lawyer […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-14T21:15:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-11-14T21:15:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Anr-Bahamas-Parliament.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"681\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"BAHAMAS-Doctors planning industrial action\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-14T21:15:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-14T21:15:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/\"},\"wordCount\":391,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:681\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Anr-Bahamas-Parliament.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Regional\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bahamas-doctors-planning-industrial-action\/\",\"name\":\"BAHAMAS-Doctors planning industrial action - 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