Nurses Need Real Help

This scene involves hard-working men and women who are – as some of them would have the public believe –‘robbed’ in broad day-light.

Here we reference people working at Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre.

Yet again, were we asked for our advice – albeit unsolicited – it would be to the effect that all parties concerned should [with the able assistance of the Hospitals Authority, staff and workers at Sandilands, the Christian Council – and the Unions should work for the achievement of a species of peace that comes mingled through and through with justice.

This is our hope.

But even as we dare hope for the best, we despair in this moment.

Here take note that some ‘genius of a person’ has decided to do something that they think matters. As we understand, some fine soul at the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre has been [generously] offered workers a slew of six dollar vouchers that entitle ‘to whom it may concern’ one cheeseburger and an order of French fries.

This ludicrous offer comes in the wake of an outrage where some of them have had their pay packets docketed. Compounding the matter is the fact that others – like certain supervisors – seem to have scant regard for clocks, time or other people’s good faith efforts.

And so the mess continues at Sandilands.

At this juncture, the only light in the gloom happens to be the continuing good cheer of men and women who have decided to pray for the people who they say are guilty of abusing them.

What we can say is that this is just not the time for this kind of unmerited meanness. But as we are aware, there are times in life when people who make mistakes are not big enough – and paradoxically – not humble enough to admit either lie or mistake.

We suspect that such a situation might be currently unfolding at the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre, where scores of nurses and their immediate supervisors are mightily upset.

They are chafing at a decision which has taken away some of the little they earn. And for sure, these nurses would want the public to know that they really work for every penny they receive.

As we have previously indicated, we are absolutely convinced that these hard-working people should not be treated as if they were some species of modern day slaves. In addition, we would seriously and strenuously suggest that this matter is one that should be and could be put to rest sooner rather than later.

We would also want the Public Hospitals Authority [and the Hon. Hubert Minnis, among other luminaries that while they might wish to dismiss these workers [as being of little import in the grand scheme of things] they should remember the time when – as voters – they mattered.

Their time will come again.

Here we wish to state – if only for the record – that we have been saddened beyond measure at all that has already gone down and at all that might yet take place at Sandilands; this because – at the end of the day, people who are in desperate need of care will suffer.

This would be abominably wrong.

Indeed, even as we reference a future event that would be abominably wrong, we remember the story of one woman who has already given her all to her work – however humble – to the care of patients at Sandilands.

We are told that this person has worked for the institution for more than thirty years and that she recently ‘got her letter’. On receipt, she thought that it was a letter congratulating her for her good work.

Instead – and to her consternation – the letter informed her that some of the pennies she had earned were slated to be cut.

This is a waste of both time and money.

Evidently, the time has come for someone with both gumption and commonsense to call a halt to the madness [pun intended] that is currently unfolding at Sandilands.

Indeed, the more we hear about the shenanigans, maneuvers and associated cruelties going on in that place – we wonder concerning who should really be patients.

In a sad sense, the suggestion lingers that there are different strokes for different folks at Sandilands; and that some supervisors are ‘mad enough’ to believe that they could get away with such a brazen tactic.

Here we suspect that class dynamics might have played a role, with high and mighty ones convinced that they could get away with such a ploy.

Here take note that they must know that the eyes of the public and others are now trained on them – and surely, some of us do not like what we are seeing.

Nor do we like what we are hearing about the victimization that is unfolding.

Someone should be big enough, smart enough and humble enough to bring this farce to an end.