PUBLIC HOSPITALS 'RUN
ON JUST 17% OF BUDGET'
By NATARIO McKENZIE
Tribune Business Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net
OVERSTAFFING through the politically-related "pile on" of public service workers has left the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) with less than 20 per cent of its annual budget available to purchase medicines and equipment, a doctor telling Tribune Business yesterday that an exorbitant amount went to employee salaries.
Well-known orthopedic surgeon, Dr Robert Gibson, said successive governments have used the public heal ...Read More
