Budgets unfrozen

PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a bill allowing the government to hire temporary workers in the public sector.

The hiring will however be limited to state hospitals, the Department of Statistics and the Committee on Missing Persons.

Around 25 temporary staff — including radiologists, anaesthesiologists and gastroenterologists — in state hospitals islandwide had not had their contract renewed putting strain on hospital staff.

The civil servants union PASYDY says that state hospitals need some 150 temps to tackle current understaffing problems.

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