Under strain BVIHSA issues urgent vacancies for COVID-19 support staff
The Authority issued the call via a press release today, July 14, 2021, noting “this initiative is aimed at quickly acquiring critically needed medical human resources to better respond to the current COVID 19 outbreak.”
The reasoning giving for the urgent need for more staff, according to the BVIHSA, is the recent upsurge of COVID 19 cases in the territory.
Significant hardships in BVI
According to the Authority, the virus surge “has also affected the staff complement of the Health Services Authority leaving the organisation, which is the leading medical service provider in the BVI, to operate under additional strain.
“This unfavourable situation has resulted in significant hardship for the employees of the BVIHSA who have been working under enormous pressure since the pandemic began in March of 2020,” the release stated.
Acting CEO Cedorene P. Malone-Smith, in response to the strain, has requested that a COVID-19 Clinical Locum Bank be established immediately. This is aimed at sustaining the BVI Health Services Authority’s ability to continue to respond effectively to the current COVID 19 outbreak.
According to Mrs Malone-Smith said, “As an organisation, we are constantly being tested and this unfortunate public health crisis is yet another hurdle we must overcome. Nonetheless, we remain committed to our motto that only ‘excellence counts’ even as we work through the significant challenges this situation has caused.”
Staff support urgently needed
She said the Locum Bank is critical right now as it will not only provide urgently needed staff support but also ensure that the VI community receives the best medical care possible.
The Authority said that the Locum Bank is opened to all trained, qualified and registered healthcare workers in the territory, including senior and retired clinicians and that their role will be on an as-is-needed basis.
Interested persons can email the BVI Health Services Authority at tpenn@bvihsa.vg to request a registration form.
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29 Responses to “Under strain BVIHSA issues urgent vacancies for COVID-19 support staff”
The death toll will continue to rise because they are going about this the wrong way, no matter how much we pleaded and begged the population to take the jab if they don't want to we cannot make them take it, most minds have already made up.
No island in the Caribbean will read herd immunity, not even Grenada who trying to make the jab mandatory.
There are also medical personnel here who refuses to take the jab citing religious beliefs, I pleaded and begged my sister who is a nurse and she told me flat out no, as a Badventist/Sevendevil they don't trust the vaccine.
The health care system is quickly overwhelm and people are dying. some want to blame the unvaccinated but that isnt it at all. The BVI isnt the only one had to go back into lockdown to save life look at Barbados.
Alhough the vaccine help save life which I dont dispute, the main variable that should have been considered was the percentage of unvaccinated and the health care ability to deal with cases arising from that high percentage.
The strain of the virus on the NHS was one major factor in UK's shutdown.
I dont know who is the expert advising the BVI government but its time to level up on the science. No more room for trial and error too many will continue to die