Rakesh Gajadhar Sukul, the director of public health, concurrently serves as the PCS’s interim medical director. The Health Minister requests that everyone engaged provide Gajadhar Sukul their full cooperation as he performs his duties.
When questioned about this dual role, Health Minister Amar Ramadhin told the media that the hiring process for a medical director for PCS has begun. “If the psychiatry department does not wish to make a nomination, we must, in accordance with the law, take responsibility,” the minister says.
There has been a vacancy at PCS for some time, but no one wants to fill it yet, Ramadhin says. That is why it has been decided for this construction that the Director of Public Health will fill the position provisionally.
The minister emphasizes that the Director of Public Health is also Inspector General of Suriname. In that capacity, he is legally responsible for the medical event. He is not paid twice as medical director of PCS. “It is a temporary unpaid observation.”