Lab technicians to stage work-to-rule

HOSPITALS face serious disruption from Tuesday onwards as laboratory technicians enforce a work-to-rule to demand restructuring of their service.

According to an announcement by the civil servants= union Pasydy, the hospital laboratory technicians will only break their overtime ban to provide blood bank supplies for emergency cases.

“For all other cases… the necessary arrangements will have to be made with the private sector in good time,” the Pasydy announcement said.

The union statement noted that a similar work-to-rule had been planned for last December but was called off after promises of swift restructuring. Those promises proved hollow, Pasydy said.

 

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