The additional adjustments will take effect from January 1 next year. Photo: iStock

Ali said that the additional adjustments will take effect from January 1 next year. 

He said in order to ensure that the public healthcare system is able to attract talented young professionals, the government will be making salary adjustments to several categories of doctors working in the system, including as follows: 

He said medical Interns will now have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$151,374 (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) to GUY$200,000, representing an additional 32.1 per cent increase on the current minimum salary paid to a medical intern. 

In addition, medical officers, whether employed at the Georgetown Public Health Corporation (GPHC) or elsewhere, will now have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$219,878 to GUY$300,000, representing an additional 36.4 per cent increase on their current minimum salaries. 

“Medical Officers who have completed one year of post-employment experience, for example, a second year GMO, will now have their current minimum salary adjusted to GUY$351,204 in line with the current practice at the GPHC.” 

President Ali in his broadcast on Monday night, said that medical officers who have completed two years of post-employment experience will now have their current minimum salary adjusted to GUY$414,032 in line with the current practice at the GPHC. 

Medical Officers who have completed three years of post-employment experience will now have their current minimum salary adjusted to GUY$446,160 in line with the current practice at the GPHC. 

Specialist doctors such as obstetricians and gynaecologists, neurosurgeons, dermatologists, orthopaedic surgeons, will now have their minimum salaries adjusted upwards of GUY$276,536 to GUY$450,000, representing an additional increase of 62.7 per cent on the current minimum salaries. 

The head of state said that nurse aides and patient care assistants will now have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$80,892 to GUY$100,000, representing an additional 23.6 per cent increase on the current minimum salary paid to each worker. 

He said nursing assistants will now have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$88,525 to GUY$115,000 and that this represents an additional 29.9 per cent increase on the current minimum salary. 

Midwives will now have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$96,974 to GUY$169,438, an increase of 74.7 per cent while staff nurses will now have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$111,628 to GUY$169,438, an increase of 51.8 per cent increase. 

President Ali said that staff nurses and midwives will also have their current minimum salary adjusted upwards from GUY$127,963 to GUY$195,000, representing an additional 52.4 per cent increase on the current minimum salary. 

Ali said that in order to ensure that the public health care system is supported by adequately qualified technicians and allied health professionals, the government will be adjusting the salaries payable to several categories of these workers, including, pharmacy assistants, dental and laboratory aides and community health workers, all of whom will now be receiving salaries of GUY$100,000,. 

He said medex salaries will now be GUY$200,000 while pharmacists will now be paid GUY$215,000. “These revisions to the salaries of these workers will benefit over 5,000 persons and will increase disposable incomes by over GUY$1.5 billion annually. This represents a further instalment of my government’s unwavering commitment to continue the improvement of the working conditions of our employees in the public sector and, indeed, of all Guyanese,” Ali said in the broadcast.