CUPE 5430 is demanding an investigation into ongoing AIMS system failures that have resulted in ongoing compensation issues, a dysfunctional job posting system, province-wide inventory shortages, and triaging of testing at the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory.
Despite promises from the Saskatchewan Health Authority that all compensation issues would be remedied, the AIMS rollout has instead gone from bad to worse:
- CUPE health care providers across the province are still waiting for compensation issues to be remedied.
- The new job posting system is dysfunctional and onerous and creating significant challenges filling positions.
- Inventory issues have left health care providers in acute, long-term care, and home care settings without supplies they need to provide safe patient care. This includes but is not limited to intravenous supplies, incontinence products, sterile gauzes, barrier creams, saline bags, and colonoscopy supplies.
- Inventory shortages have resulted in CUPE health care providers having to triage testing at the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory resulting in delays for testing and diagnosis as well as delays in municipal water testing.
“Top to bottom, the latest AIMS rollout has been an abject failure,” said Bashir Jalloh, president of CUPE 5430. “Health care workers shouldn’t be scrambling ward to ward to find enough supplies to safely care for or diaper patients. These issues are putting patients and health care providers at risk. We are calling for an independent third-party investigation into this fiasco.”
CUPE 5430 represents nearly 14,000 health care workers in Saskatchewan and supports calls from the Provincial Auditor for an investigation into the mismanaged AIMS project.