SOME nurses were not paid their promised scarcity allowance yesterday, according to Bahamas Nurses Union president Amancha Williams. Registered nurses and trained clinical nurses in the public system were to get $3,000 and $2,000 respectively. But Ms Williams said a “good number of them” did not get the money. “Scarcity allowance is not mandated in the Industrial Agreement but every country is doing it to keep their nurses in their countries. It was promised we would get it (yesterday). We are just taking names of people now who weren’t paid and they are really upset because they’ve worked really hard. Some of them worked Hurricane Dorian and haven’t been paid overtime for that or given their expected per diem,” she said. Health Minister Dr Sands recently discussed the nurse shortage in the country, saying the deficit is in the hundreds.
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