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— even as the possibility of elimination nearsGuyana is set to host the 10th Regional Lymphatic Filariasis Programme Managers Meeting and the 9th Regional Programme Review Group Meeting from today through Wednesday.? The two meetings will be held at the Princess Hotel, Providence, East Bank Demerara, and are being held here through the Ministry of Health’s collaboration with the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) and other partners supporting the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis.According to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, the meetings are being viewed as very important for both the Regions of the Americas and Guyana for a number of important reasons. Principal among the importance of the meeting is the fact that as a Region “we will be able to assess the level of elimination of this preventable infection and identify gaps, challenges and solutions necessary to achieve the Global Goal of Elimination by 2015.”? At present, he said, there are only four countries with active transmission of W. bancrofti, the parasite that is spread by the common culex mosquito that causes Filariasis. These four endemic countries, Haiti,NFL Jerseys China Online, the Dominican Republic, Brazil and Guyana will also be joined by Suriname, Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago, which are at this time rapidly moving towards elimination, Minister Ramsammy noted. He pointed out though that even in the endemic countries, through support from the PAHO/WHO, the United States Centres for Disease Control, several regional and local universities and other institutions, private drug manufactures and other donors, the ministries of health and the local health authorities have been able to reduce the prevalence markedly in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and to some extent in Guyana and Haiti.In Brazil for example, only a few small foci of transmission still exist in one Amazon state, while the Dominican Republic has been able to push back the disease transmission to just a few providences close to the Haitian borders,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Minister Ramsammy revealed.? Moreover, Guyana through the novel DEC-salt fortification was able to reduce national prevalence from a record high of almost 10 percent of the population to about four percent.“For Guyana, this meeting will mark 10 years since the programme to eliminate filariasis was formally established, and since then we have launched the DEC-fortified salt initiative which ran from 2003 to 2007,Cheap Jerseys 2018, and the CARE programmes both of which have contributed to reduction in transmission and suffering from this disease,Brendan Langley Jersey,” Minister Ramsammy disclosed.? In 2008, Guyana commenced the phase II programme which is now based on door to door delivery of DEC and Albendazole to all at-risk populations in the affected areas, Minister Ramsammy added. Since then, three rounds of DEC/ALB mass drug distribution were completed in Region Five, and one each in Region Six and Two.Last year, through the Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme, the Ministry of Health obtained funding for a five year programme in Region Four, the most highly affected region of the country.? Government, according to Minister Ramsammy has since committed to the continued provision of support for the few other regions still noted with transmission.“It may appear to many who only see this disease in others around that the impact of this PAHO/WHO regional Programme is limited, but to our brothers and sisters who for so many years suffered from this disease, this programme has been a life saver and the impact is immeasurable,” Minister Ramsammy asserted.? He added too that?through the initiatives of the programme, many can now live a happy and fulfilling life, free from illness and the stigma of filaria. “For these persons,China NFL Jerseys, I would like to thank all those who have even in the most difficult time of finding resources and competing with what may have appeared to be more urgent problems such as HIV and malaria, for staying with this noble endeavour.”According to Minister Ramsammy, in 2001 when the Regional Programme for the elimination of the parasitic disease was launched,China Jerseys Cheap, Guyana was the host of the Regional Programme Managers Meeting and since then the Regional Programme has moved rapidly through several stages of advancement that today the goal of elimination seems highly possible even before the WHO target of 2020.“As I welcome all the delegates from the affected counties and partner organisation to Guyana, I applaud the work of each of the countries’ programmes and their suppor

Government has sought to defend its position that the $4.4B voted for revision of wages and salaries cannot pay more than five per cent increase to public servants by saying that the allocation is also used for new recruits and promoted employees.Former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran, has rubbished this explanation. He said that it does not have merit since every year the National Assembly approves of revised staffing tables for ministries, departments and regions.Former Auditor General, Anand GoolsarranGoolsarran in qualifying his pronouncement, used as an example, the staffing details for Office of the President under the accounting head,China NBA Jerseys, Presidential Advisory: Cabinet and Other Services.According to the former Auditor General,Brad Kaaya Jersey, the authorized staffing for 2012 was 176 while that for 2013 is 196, an increase of 20.In terms of wages and salaries, the revised figure for 2012 was $331.1M while the budgeted figure for 2013 is $409.6M, an increase of $78.468 million.Goolsarran noted that the five per cent increase in 2012, which works out to $16.6M, was met from the Ministry of Finance’s allocation since the revision of wages and salaries is budgeted centrally under the Ministry of Finance.This amount would have to be added to the wages and salaries for existing staff members to arrive at the new figure for 2013.The difference of $61.9M would therefore be to cover the wages and salaries of the additional 20 staff members.He said that the additional cost relating to promoted staff members would have also been reflected in the budgetary amounts.“Suffice it also to state that no ministry, department or region can recruit persons beyond the authorized staffing that National Assembly has approved…Therefore, the explanation that the salaries of new recruits are met from the allocation under revision of wages and salaries, is not a valid one.”Goolsarran in his writings on the matter pointed out that the Union is obviously dissatisfied with the quantum of the increase which it argues continues to be arbitrary and a breach of the Collective Bargaining Agreement agreed upon with the Government.He said the imposition of arbitrary increases is not a new occurrence which can be traced back to the mid-1990s, except for the 1999 Armstrong Tribunal Award which the Union claimed was partially implemented.Goolsarran added that related to the issue of salary increases, are travel and meal allowances which have also not increased since then, despite a five-fold increase in the price of fuel in the case of the former, Goolsarran said.“How are those public servants, who are required to be mobile in the execution of their duties,Cheap Jerseys Store, able to carry out such duties effectively?”He noted that Government is contending that talks with the Union had reached a stalemate and that it has no alternative than to approve of the five per cent increase.“How valid is this contention, given that for the last 17 years, salary increases have been an imposition and not subject to negotiation and agreement with the Union,” Goolsarran questioned.According to Goolsarran, “the Government also argued that the issue is one of affordability and that its ability to offer a higher increase was affected by the budget cuts, particularly as regards the Amaila Falls Hydro (AFH) Project.”Goolsarran pointed out that the implementation of AFH arguably would have seen subsidies to the Guyana Power and Light significantly reduced, if not, eliminated, thereby releasing funds for the payment of higher increases.“However,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, AFH would have taken 40 months to build and therefore would not have had any impact until 2017.”According to Goolsarran,China Jerseys Cheap, the Opposition political parties, for their part, quite justifiably argued that the approved budget did not reflect any cuts in the projected revenue but rather in expenditure; and this would have resulted in the availability of more funds to pay salary increases.Goolsarran added out that the current Auditor General’s report for 2012 for the Finance Ministry is devoid of any findings relating to employment costs, including the expenditure under the line item for revision of wages and salaries.“One is therefore left to wonder whether the Auditor General was satisfied with propriety of the amount of $2.4B billion that was paid out in 2012 to meet expenditure unrelated to the revision of wages and salaries…“Or, was it a situation where no tests were carried out in relation to this expenditure?”Goolsarran pointed out that the Auditor General is required to examine in such manner as he deems necessary the relevant financial statements and accounts and to asc

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