Friday, 10th October 2008 - 14:08CET
Industrial action at the pharmaceutical service
The UHM has ordered a work to rule at the Government pharmacuetical section after the section failed to submit counter-proposals in talks on working conditions.
The union submitted its own proposals nine months ago.
The UHM said workers have also been ordered not to answer the phone and not to work on new services.
It complained that the section had a serious shortage of pharmacists and as a result the workers were working under excessive presure.
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As if these ppl are not tax payers themselves. UHM is asking for more pharmacists to be employed, so that patients get a better service. Nurses' union should also complain because the lack of nurses is one of the causes of the enormous waiting lists with patients waiting to do operations.
Are you joking?
It is useful to remind the Health authorities that at the start of that service, these same pharmacists now crying "Wolf" had feared that it would lead to their dismissal from Government employment!! Where have all the scores of pharmacists graduating from our University in the last years gone to? "Spizjara w Avukati bil-gzuz u t-tunellati" - and now complaining that they are "working under excess pressure". Hon. Minister, pleased wake up to facts and the nation's requirements!!
Well in this case the workers mentioned here are professionals as much as the University Lecturers. This is a BIG problem that the authorities are undermining because it has a direct impact on the Medicines readily available at Mater Dei. You would not want to be a patient waiting for medicines at the mercy of govt. red tape.