Civil servants urged to get vaccinated

National

PERSONNEL Management secretary Taies Sansan has urged all public servants to be vaccinated against the Coronavirus (Covid-19).
“Although, it is not compulsory, I want all public servants throughout the country get vaccinated,” she said.
She set the example recently by getting the jab herself.
“You just have to see how the pandemic is spreading and the death toll impacting our communities,” she said.
“You also have to see that our hospitals are filling up with Covid-19 patients, stressing our limited health staff. Our health facilities are not (equipped and manned) enough to cater for the surge of patients admitted to our hospitals.
“And so as responsible public servants, we have to get vaccinated to protect ourselves, our families and the communities we reside in.”
Sansan stated this yesterday at Government House during a ceremony in which seven heads of government agencies signed their contracts.
The Government, while urging public servants to get vaccinated, still respect their right to make the decision themselves.
But it also supports the right of an employer to ensure the safety of its workplace by requiring that all employees be vaccinated. Sansan supported the move by the Lands and Physical Planning Department to ban people who were not vaccinated from entering its offices.