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Budget snippet: $210m to be distributed to 20,000 healthcare workers

In this file photo, newly minted registered nurses (from left) Glenderlin Remey, Afeisha Harroo, Tiffany Dyer, Angelique Nathan and LaToya Joseph as they reported for duty at the North West Regional Health Authority on Dundonald Street Port of Spain.
In this file photo, newly minted registered nurses (from left) Glenderlin Remey, Afeisha Harroo, Tiffany Dyer, Angelique Nathan and LaToya Joseph as they reported for duty at the North West Regional Health Authority on Dundonald Street Port of Spain.

Finance Minister Colm Imbert said he has been instructed to distribute $210 million to health care workers in this year's budget.

Speaking during his budget presentation on Monday, Imbert said this would involve an ex-gratia payment to over 20,000 people.

The Prime Minister had promised the payment to healthcare workers on August 23 at a PNM national public meeting at the Belmont Community Centre.

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