HSB halts on-call allowances for management Dr Parirenyatwa
Dr Parirenyatwa

Dr Parirenyatwa

Diana Nherera Herald Reporter
The Health Services Board (HSB) has stopped paying on-call allowances to the Secretary for Health and Child Care Dr Gerald Gwinji and principal directors who were unprocedurally drawing the money, Health and Child Care Minister, Dr David Parirenyatwa, told parliamentarians yesterday.

Payments were stopped last month to accommodate other health professionals such as nurses who were getting a paltry $7 per month as night duty allowances.

Dr Parirenyatwa said this while presenting oral evidence to the Parliamentary Committee on Health at Parliament Building yesterday, together with Dr Gwinji, HSB chairman Dr Lovemore Mbengeranwa and other officials from the Ministry and the HSB.

The HSB is the employer of all health officials in Government.

Dr Parirenyatwa told the committee that the allowances were stopped due to the limited fiscal space that could not accommodate the Health Ministry’s senior management as well as the health professionals.

He said the allowances were introduced when the country was still using the local currency as a way of cushioning and retaining health staff as the Health Ministry was faced with a staff exodus.

Nurses from some Government hospitals last month boycotted night duty after it was revealed that senior officials in the Health Ministry were getting huge allowances while they got $7 as night duty allowances.

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