Health Ministry responds to SMC nurses' complaint of salary non-payment

TDT | Manama

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The Health Ministry has revealed that it is in the process of paying the due salaries of their newly recruited nurses and was in the process of completing their hiring procedures.

An appeal had gone out today to help the Indian nurses who have been working at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) for months without salaries. This was circulated in social media and had gone viral in a short time.

In response to this appeal, the ministry said that the recruitment procedures for the complainants would soon be completed and that it was following up the matter to fix employee information in the system in order to disburse all due salaries.

“The ministry would like to inform that, due to its need to cover the urgent need to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of nurses specialized in certain fields have been contracted to work at the Ministry of Health from the Republic of India, and the Ministry is working to complete the recruitment procedures so that those concerned can disburse salaries in coordination with the concerned authorities, noting that the aforementioned complaint relates to a limited number of nurses, who recently arrived in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and have reasons that led to the failure to pay the salary,” the ministry said.

“It is noteworthy that the ministry has disbursed a financial advance that was distributed to all employees in advance, to avoid the circumstances of delaying salary disbursement. It also provided accommodation in hotels in the Kingdom of Bahrain that are equipped and that meet all their needs, from the day they reached, with the provision of all main meals and transportation, until the salary is disbursed, out of its concern for their human rights, providing a suitable work environment and achieving the highest levels of job security.”