WILLEMSTAD - Tensions exist among the ambulance personnel due to the Minister of Health, Environment and Nature Dorothy Pietersz-Janga. This was reported by Kenneth Bremer of the ABVO trade union.
The union requested a meeting with the minister on January 24, but a month later they have still not received a response. According to Bremer, the minister is meeting with another union to which some ambulance personnel are affiliated, which is causing unrest. The AVBO has sent Pietersz-Janga a letter with four points they want to talk about.
To start with, the union wants an investigation into an audit of the Fundashon Kuido di Ambulans Kòrsou (FKAK). They also want to talk about the legal position of the staff, the treatment of new staff at the FKAK, and the subsidy policy.
The minister has replied that she wants to wait until the audit is completed. Now there is tension among the ambulance personnel, as Pietersz-Janga does talk to the other union. Bremer says he does not know what the minister is doing. "She is not answering her phone."
The minister has requested an audit in response to developments last year when the ambulance management was put aside. The ambulance service employs about sixty people, about half of whom are members of the ABVO.