Exodus of ALBERTA’s public health leaders reveals a sad reality - (Globe and Mail)
June 19, 2008 – 11:34 pmIn the coming weeks, Alberta will lose its top public health officials. The contracts of Karen Grimsrud, the acting provincial health officer, Gloria Keays, the deputy provincial health officer, and Ameet Singh, a consultant on infectious disease, are not being renewed. (A fourth senior official, Shainoor Virani, left earlier in the year.)
The mass departure of the province’s senior public health leadership is an unmitigated disaster, and doubly so because the real reason is a mystery.
Regarding the three who are about to leave, Ron Liepert, Alberta’s Minister of Health and Wellness, has said that: a) their pay demands were unreasonable; b) they have taken jobs elsewhere; and c) the massive upheavals in the ministry had no role in the affair.
Put bluntly, Mr. Liepert has suggested they are greedy mercenaries, which is scurrilous nonsense.
The trio are not jumping ship to get big bucks elsewhere. Nobody goes into public health for money. But, […]
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