PUBLIC Health Secretary Joseph Kevin Villagomez has suggested brand new contracts for a nonresident nurses of Rota Health Center.
Sen. Jovita M. Taimanao, Ind.-Rota, pronounced a brand new contracts might be sealed today.
In her letter to Villagomez, a senator pronounced some of a Rota nurses have failed to show up for their scheduled shifts, in partial due to a lack of a contract.
Taimanao pronounced these nurses, who were hired by a Saipan Employment Agency & Services, were concerned which without a contract, they might be held privately probable for any medical errors, a risk they have been reluctant to take.
Seven of a 11 nonresident nurses hired by SEAS stopped showing up for work since Friday. Yesterday, dual of them reported for duty, Variety was told.
They fear for their personal security if something wrong might happen if they go upon to work without a contracting contract, a source from a illness core said.
The illness core has fourteen nonresident nurses, of whom only 3 have been directly hired.
The nursed hired by SEAS were asked by Rota Health Center director Crispin M. Ayuyu to go upon on condition which their services at an hourly rate of $4.55 until a brand new contract could be drafted as well as signed.
SEAS paid a nurses $8.93 or $9.20 an hour.
Nurses directly hired by a CNMI supervision receive $16 to $18 an hour, or more.
Taimanao pronounced a nurses have been peaceful to pointer a brand new contract but with a CNMI supervision as well as not with SEAS.
The nurses, a source told Variety, felt which they perceived poor treatment from SEAS, which has yet to be paid by a CNMI government.
The nurses have consummated their practice with SEAS.
Taimanao pronounced they were positive by acting Gov. Eloy S. Inos which funding will be reprogrammed for a salaries of a nurses.
No work stoppage
A Tinian lawmaker, for his part, is assured which a twelve SEAS nurses reserved to a islands illness core will go upon to work notwithstanding a nonpayment of a months worth of their salaries.
Republican Rep. Trenton B. Conner pronounced this Friday, theyre not certain either a nurses will get paid.
Previously, he said, a metropolitan supervision used a islands gin rummy price collections to compensate a nurses salaries, which were behind for dual months.
Sen. Henry H. San Nicolas, Covenant-Tinian, pronounced they have been not certain if a central supervision will replenish a islands gin rummy supports which, he added, have been additionally intended for other metropolitan projects.
But San Nicolas pronounced he is assured which a Tinian nurses will not desert their posts.
He pronounced a nurses have been aware which CNMI as well as Tinian officials have been addressing a problem.
In a apart interview, Sen. Francisco Q. Cruz, R-Tinian, pronounced they might rectify a law to concede for a direct employing of nonresident nurses upon Rota as well as Tnian.
Were additionally perplexing to do a most appropriate we can to say a smoothness of illness services by perplexing to get a indispensable funding, Cruz said.
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