{"id":94585,"date":"2020-01-06T19:59:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T23:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=94585"},"modified":"2020-01-08T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:01:26","slug":"doctors-protest-over-unpaid-december-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/doctors-protest-over-unpaid-december-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Protest Over Unpaid December Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Antigua Newsroom\u00a0article on January 6, 2020 fundamentally misrepresents the reality at Mount St. John\u2019s Medical Centre\u00a0(MSJMC).\u00a0<\/i>All salaries were paid on time by the hospital. Further, at\u00a0no time during the period stated was there any industrial action\u00a0being taken by hospital physicians. It is unfortunate that MSJMC\u2019s Communications Office was not contacted prior to publication of such an impactful article containing the barest of details.<\/div>\n
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MSJMC places a high value on the care provided to the community and it is important that the assertions made in the article are addressed with the relevant facts. We are therefore requesting a retraction of this article.<\/div>\n
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The MSJMC Communications Office remains\u00a0available to assist with pertinent matters regarding the medical centre.<\/div>\n
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EARLIER REPORT<\/strong><\/div>\n

Doctors at the Mount St. John Medical Centre are reportedly engaged in an industrial action in the form of a go-slow, which is adversely affecting patients and their relatives.<\/p>\n

The reason for the protest, according to physicians on duty, was because of unpaid December salaries.<\/p>

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While the Government has claimed that all public-sector workers were paid early to enable them to shop for Christmas, employees from several departments, including the Ministry of Public Works, had still not been paid at the end of the year.<\/p>

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A young mother who took her child in to see a doctor complained that she has been waiting for five hours.<\/p>\n

She also shared that a fellow patient suffering from high temperature left the waiting room and went home, but came back later to seek help. She alleges that the woman eventually passed out, then was accused, by a nurse, of \u201cfaking it\u201d in an attempt to get attention in a timely manner.<\/p>

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Apart from the waiting period being ‘ridiculous’ as she described, the young mother also complained that the department was short-staffed.<\/p>\n

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