News out today shows that there are currently 13 top ranking executives with the Interior Health Authority now earning over $200 thousand dollars per year.
The lowest is making in excess of $218 thousand
dollars a year ... the highest, over $355 thousand. These executives are
making a combined total of $3.3 million dollars a year. While all this happen, Premier Christy Clark continues to enjoy her taxpayer funded photo-op tour of the province making announcements of 'far-in-the-future' projects that will never see the light of day.
The Interior Health Authority, responsible for Royal Inland Hospital, has overseen the closure of a fully equiped operating theater, hundreds of beds, the reduction of front-line workers, and a never ending litany of 'emergencies' within its' own ER.
In recent weeks, we have had ER Doctors on the record saying just how bad things are. The emergency room, and the hospital, regularly runs at over 100% capacity.
I have heard from one person after the other praising doctors, nurses, and other front-line staff for making a valiant effort under what has to be extremely trying conditions. How can the staff of RIH perform their duties when the ER is continuing overcapacity, and patients have beds in hallways.
The latest Public Sector Salary Report now shows the Interior Health Authority with a total of 26 hundred and twenty two (2,622) people in administrative roles -- that for 18,500 doctors, nurses, and other front line workers.
