Covid-19: Health Ministry recruits over 8,000 contract healthcare workers

The Health Ministry has obtained approval from the Finance Ministry to recruit 8,302 contract healthcare workers, through an initiative to optimise the use of human resources to address the Covid-19 pandemic.

Health Minister Dr Adham Baba said that the contract healthcare workers hired as of April included 82 science officers; 4,472 nurses; 2,249 assistant medical officers; 666 medical laboratory technologists; 340 assistant environmental officers and 293 diagnostic X-Ray technicians...