The Min­istry of Health says it is not aware of any pol­i­cy di­rec­tives is­sued by the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) to cease hir­ing or to ar­bi­trar­i­ly ter­mi­nate staff con­tracts.

In a state­ment on Tues­day af­ter­noon, the min­istry said in the ab­sence of ap­point­ed Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty Boards, the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cers un­der the over­sight of the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ue to man­age hu­man re­source mat­ters.

This in­cludes en­sur­ing that staffing lev­els re­main aligned with the ser­vice de­liv­ery goals of each in­sti­tu­tion, while al­so op­er­at­ing with­in their fi­nan­cial re­al­i­ties.