HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is being called upon to provide evidence that public servants are trying to get false vaccination cards.
The call comes from Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh in a release on Thursday.
He said, “We stand with all public officers whose just salary is being held as hostage by this anti-working class government because of its own failure to manage the Covid-19 virus and call upon the Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh to produce the evidence or data to substantiate his allegation that fake vaccination cards are being sought by the public servants.
“This is a red herring and true distraction by the Minister of Health and if he is unable to produce the evidence or data to substantiate this allegation, then he must ‘shut up’ and concentrate in his Ministry’s effort to decrease both the death and infection rates and must apologise to the public servants for impugning their integrity and character.”
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said last month that by mid-January, public servants would have to be fully vaccinated to be allowed to work. Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi said he was drafting legislation to make this happen.
In his release, Indarsingh also told public servants to demand in writing the reasons for being debarred from their workplaces.
He said, “Public servants are being told that they would be paid only upon submission of their vaccination cards and the United National Congress is guiding all public servants to report for work and to demand in writing from their respective Permanent Secretaries or Heads of Departments the reason/s as to why they are being debarred entry into their workplaces.”
