February 24, 2021
Some staff members in the kitchen of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) have been calling for its closure after a colleague in that section recently tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.
But Executive Chairman Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland has said the kitchen is too critical a facility to shut down and alternative measures have been implemented to protect those workers.
A number of kitchen staff told
Barbados TODAY after the positive case was made known, management allowed employees to continue operations as usual and did not ask them to get tested.
One staff member claimed they were afraid to return to work and in a quandary as to whether to stay home or report for duty.