PSOJ President Keith Duncan - file photo
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The Private Sector Organzsation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is urging the government to find a way to bolster the health system amid the pressure being placed on hospitals by rising covid-19 infections.
Last week, the Ministry of Health & Wellness reported that the number of persons hospitalised with COVID-19 was higher than the number of isolation beds.
It also said more than 600 health care workers had contracted the illness.
In response, PSOJ President Keith Duncan told Radio Jamaica News that a way must be found to deal with the wave of infections without curtailing business.
Private businesses were experiencing "a high level of absenteeism because people are out sick and isolating themselves," he told Radio Jamaica News.
While stressing that the PSOJ was not supportive of another round of no-movement days and other restrictions, he acknowledged that the healthcare system, "and we have to find a way to bolster the effort and to give them resources as much as wel can, so that this fourth wave (of the virus) can pass without too much more dislocation."
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