Third of Shetty staff local workers
Staff at Health City Cayman Islands
(CNS): Officials from Health City Cayman Islands in East End have confirmed that around one third of the facility’s workforce is made up of Caymanians. Project Director Gene Thompson and Marketing Director Shomari Scott confirmed that the targets for local employment at the hospital in its first year of more than 25% had been exceeded as 51 of the 153 employees at the hospital are locals.
While the medical staff is still dominated by Indian personnel, with just one Caymanian doctor on the team, local workers are filling many of the administrative and other non-medical jobs. Scott said that the percentage of locals in the medical posts was set to change in the future, given the number of interns that have taken up short-term training opportunities at HCCI.
He said more than 150 young people had come through the hospital doors since it opened and he believed that some of them have been inspired to consider a career in medicine and hopefully train towards specialisms that the hospital will need.
“We hope to get some top notch local doctors in the very near future,” he said.
The youth internship programme was one of the key initiatives identified during the launch of Health City Cayman Islands project and will complement the development of medical research university planned in future phases over the next decade.
Creating jobs and encouraging Caymanians into the medical profession is another area which government hopes locals will see a direct benefit of the facility, in addition to the development of medical tourism and the opportunities present for local support services and businesses.
While it was always expected that the medical team would be dominated by work permit holders, the hospital’s website reveals only a few local faces in the management team. Alongside Scott and Thompson, who is the only Caymanian on the board of directors, there is just one other Caymanian on the hospital’s executive management team — HR Director Judy Ann Ebanks.
Meanwhile, Dr Irka Ebanks is the only local doctor and Charles Bush, another Caymanian, is the hospital’s Healthcare Chaplain and manager of mission integration and spiritual care.
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What a tremendous accomplishment for HCCI… and the cause of further problems for the rest of the private sector which now has 51 fewer Caymanians to choose from.
Meanwhile, a number of Caymanians expect every company to defy not only the laws of supply and demand but those of basic arithmetic and somehow employ 100% Caymanian workers even though expats make up more than 50% of the workforce. If expats make up 50% of the workforce for every company that exceeds this level, another one somewhere must fail to meet it and thereby incur the wrath of the community (not to mention the authorities).
If this were a dart company, your headline would be “two thirds of hospital employees are foreigners” I don’t understand why you give shetty such an easy run simply because his mode of profit making is healthcare rather than hotels.
Get real. Shetty has come through on every promise to date. (So has Dart.)
What about Shetty’s promise of a free Cath lab for HSA? HSA spent $$$ converting an operating room for in anticipation of this.
Why should Shetty be paying for anything to do with our HSA .We Caymanians shouldn’t be relying on outside help for things like this – you’re telling me we can’t come together as a country and make some good for ourselves? The HSA and the GT hospital should be OUR responsibility, no one else’s. The way that it is run and the way business is conducted there is because WE allow it to happen. We have allowed the ambulance service to get overlooked, for the quality of the hospital to decline while Chrissie Tomlinson and Shetty overtake us. We are a developed country and we seem to forget that.
Remind me. What percentage of Dart’s staff are Caymanian?
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