NCRHA rejects claims of locker breach at EWMSC

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has re­ject­ed claims cir­cu­lat­ing on­line that staff lock­ers were forcibly bro­ken in­to or that per­son­al items were dis­card­ed at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC).

The Au­thor­i­ty stat­ed that the lock­ers shown in the video had been sched­uled for re­moval and re­place­ment as part of on­go­ing fa­cil­i­ty up­grades. Heads of De­part­ment were for­mal­ly in­formed in ad­vance and asked to ad­vise staff to re­move per­son­al be­long­ings be­fore the process be­gan.

The NCRHA em­pha­sized that no per­son­al be­long­ings were dis­card­ed. It added that the cir­cu­la­tion and fram­ing of the video were in­tend­ed to cre­ate alarm among staff and the pub­lic by mis­rep­re­sent­ing a rou­tine au­tho­rized process.

The Au­thor­i­ty iden­ti­fied the staff mem­ber in­volved in the video as some­one pre­vi­ous­ly found sell­ing items on the ramp of the Emer­gency De­part­ment dur­ing work hours. It not­ed that such ac­tions will be treat­ed with se­ri­ous­ness and re­mind­ed per­son­nel that sim­i­lar con­duct will not be tol­er­at­ed.

The NCRHA reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing a safe and func­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment for staff, pa­tients, and vis­i­tors while con­tin­u­ing im­prove­ments across its fa­cil­i­ties.

This state­ment comes amid on­line dis­cus­sions that sug­gest­ed staff prop­er­ty had been re­moved with­out con­sent. The Au­thor­i­ty has clar­i­fied that the re­moval was part of planned up­grades and that com­mu­ni­ca­tion was is­sued be­fore­hand to en­sure staff could se­cure their be­long­ings.

The NCRHA con­clud­ed by stress­ing that the in­ci­dent was mis­rep­re­sent­ed and that its fo­cus re­mains on fa­cil­i­ty im­prove­ment and work­place stan­dards.