Hôpital Principal: Workers oppose autonomy for Dakar International Polyclinic
The college of workers’ delegates at Dakar’s Hôpital Principal is challenging a plan for the autonomous management of the Dakar International Polyclinic. The inter-union body fears staff and equipment transfers that could, it says, weaken the hospital.
In a statement dated 1 September, the college of workers’ delegates at Dakar’s Hôpital Principal expressed its opposition to autonomous management for the Dakar International Polyclinic. Staff representatives reject any separation of the facility from the institution that carried the project from its design through to completion.
They say the polyclinic should retain its original purpose: strengthening Hôpital Principal’s capacities. Set to become a level-4 hospital facility, it should not operate as a parallel entity within the institution, they argue.
Concerns over resource transfers
The inter-union body says it is concerned about a gradual transfer of human and material resources to the polyclinic. It cites the departure of Hôpital Principal workers as well as the removal of certain equipment initially intended to modernise the hospital, notably radiotherapy-related equipment.
For the unions, this development could deprive Hôpital Principal of the skills and resources needed for its operations, at a time when the institution is involved in several modernisation projects.
Four trade unions named
The position is notably supported by STC-HPD, SUTSASHPD, SACSASS-HPD and CNTSHPD. The college of delegates maintains its rejection of any autonomous management arrangement which, it says, would weaken Hôpital Principal rather than strengthen its capacities.
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