Directives to all Nurses, Midwives, Physiotherapists, ECG Technicians and Social Workers regarding latest Agreement with Health Division.

MUMN Council regrets to inform you that the latest agreement reached with the Health Division will not be implemented by the Permanent Secretary.

 

This implies that Nurses, Midwives, Physiotherapists and other members of MUMN will still have deductions in their payroll when sent on quarantine and the 12 hours of VL due to the Public Holidays will not be granted. Also the Health Division failed to employ the 260 TCNs much needed in all hospitals.

 

Not to mention that the 400 euro per month  has not be forwarded to Human Resources (of every hospital/primary care etc.) as to be implemented in case schools do not open in September as planned.

 

The reason given is  that there is yet no financial  clearance from the Ministry of Finance. This is an insult to the Prime Minister as such agreement was approved also by his Office.

 

 

Hospitals, both for patients and staff have become a liability due to the shortage of nurses and other health care workers. The Health Division is now even allowing that  level one constant watch in Mt. Carmel Hospital to be performed by the contractor with “unqualified” carers when such level one requires a nurse as per hospital protocol.

 

While wards in MDH, MCH, KGH and GGH still lack the proper compliment of nurses and midwives, but then the Health Division allows nurses waiting for  employment for months on end.

 

This shows that the frontliners in all hospitals are being treated as second class with the Health Division even abandoning and ignoring the agreement which the Prime Minister was involved.

 

 

Therefore as from the 2nd September 2020, the following directives to all MUMN members working in MDH, GGH, MCH, KGH and Primary Care will come into effect:

 

 

All Nurses, Midwives working in SVP, MDH, GGH, KGH, Elderly Homes & MCH are:-

 

1. Not to wash any patients.

2. Not to ambulate patients to and from a bed and vice versa.

3. Not to accompany patients to and from X-rays, theatres, out-patients etc;

4. The only forms to be filled by the nurses & midwives are the nursing report, treatment charts, output/input charting, blood glucose monitoring, TPR and Sp02 monitoring; No other forms are to be filled up.

5. Only four theatres are to be used being emergency or elective. All nurses are to remain in theatre and for no reason such nurses are to leave theatre. All elective surgery is to be stopped.

Intensive Care Unit (ITU)

1. No shrouding in ITU.

 

Primary Health Care:

 

All bloodletting is to be stopped. INR is to be taken as from 3rd September 2020

 

Mt. Carmel Hospital

 

Besides the directives listed above,

 

No forms regarding bed state/transfers are to be filled.

No information regarding bed state is to be given to management over the phone

 

 

For the Physiotherapist working in SLH, Comm Care/Homes, GGH, SVP, CDAU, MCH, PHC, MDH and KGH:-

MDH  

Inpatients : Orthopedic wards : No electives surgery patients to be seen.

All other Wards:  Only chest patients to be seen.

MDH outpatients: only 3 patients daily to be seen face to face by each physio.

 

 

KGH inpatients:

No new patients to be seen and that includes patients transferred between wards;

No home visits.

 

KGH out patients:

No more than 3 patients daily to be seen face to face by each physio. 

 

CDAU

No more than 3 patients daily to be seen face to face by each physio. 

 

SVPR 

Wards: Only chest patients to be seen.

No ward rounds.

No home visits.

Outpatients: not more than 3 face to face patients daily to be seen by each physio. 

 

MCH: 

Wards: Only chest patients to be seen.

 No wards rounds.

 No home visits.

 No classes.

Out patients :

Not more than 3 face to face patients daily to be seen by each physio. 

 

Primary Care: 

No more than 3 face to face patients daily to be seen by each physio.

 

GGH wards:

No new patients to be seen.

GGH Outpatients: no more than 3 face to face patients daily to be seen by each physio.

 

Commcare and Homes 

No more than 3 face to face patients daily to be seen by each physio. 

 

 

To all ECG Technician working in all hospitals excluding SAMOC: -

1 Not to take ECGs which are sent and ordered through the outpatient’s departments.

2 Not to take any ECGs requested as a review between 5.00 a.m. and 7.00 a.m.

SAMOC, E/A, ITU, Renal Unit, Neonatal Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Central Delivery Suite and Pediatric Wards are all being exempted till now from these directives.

 

 

 

Paul Pace

President

MUMN

31st August 2020