More than 4000 health workers not paid : Church Health Services in PNG threaten to stop Work

More than 4,000 health workers employed under the Church Health Services in Papua New Guinea  have threaten to stop work if the PNG Health Department does not address the issue of  non-payments of salaries

The CHS and the Catholic Church Health Services are calling on the Health Department to immediately release their outstanding pay and operational grants.

Catholic Bishop Francis Meli in a statement to this news room says that the salary and operational grants from February to June as appropriated in the 2020 Budget were yet to be released.

He urged the Government to pay outstanding operational grants for all church-run health worker training schools from 2017 to 2020.

They are giving the Government 15 working days to release the funds.

Bishop Meli says an indefinite stop-work will commence at 8am on July 3 unless outstanding salary and operational grants from February to August are paid in full and cleared by the Banks.

Statement/FM100/PNGToday

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