WHILE MINISTERS PARTY, PAIN AND SUFFERING FOR OTHERS

MBABANE – While the Cabinet ministers will be living large, some members of society will be wallowing in pain as the country cannot afford to offer basic services.

These services include grants of the elderly who have turned 60 years this year.  Also, patients who were receiving specialised medical attention. Cabinet has repeatedly noted that there is no money to fund some of these essential services.

To add in the woes this country will endure was the 30-50 per cent cut for on-call and standby allowances earned by doctors and technical staff in health institutions.
These cuts follow the increment of a selected few in the civil service.

This increment was brought about by Circular Number 2 of 2017, which was said to be means to readjust salaries of those who were not properly remunerated following the adjustments made through the salary review done by LCC Consultants.

Also, while most Cabinet ministers and senior civil servants will be exchanging gifts with their loved ones, oblivious to what other families would be enduring, some members of society will be turned away as there is medication that is still not available in hospitals.

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