Health minister announces latest finalization of senior healthcare positions as part of bolstering sector

Health Minister Cassanni Laville

Health Minister Cassanni Laville has announced that the government is currently finalizing various critical senior management positions in the nursing department, reflecting a thrust in recent years for improvements across the board.

“We are in the process of finalizing some critical senior management positions, particularly in nursing as well as various other management positions,” he revealed during an announcement.

According to him, this is an effort to strengthen governance and ultimately improve healthcare outcomes for the Dominican public.

“Over the last two years, we have consistently prioritized healthcare outcomes and- not only that- we have prioritized our staff and resource allocation for the hospital with tremendous focus on human resources,” he stated.

Laville continued, “In the past two years we have seen increases in salaries, we have appointed over 100 nurses in our system, created 26 permanent positions for medical doctors and various specialists, we created 34 fulltime community health aid positions, in the process of appointing and creating temporary positions for 9 environmental health officers and we continue to do so as we review various positions at all levels throughout our primary healthcare and secondary healthcare system.”

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8 Comments

  1. Commentator
    February 9, 2026

    I just wish that the loans that DLP paid off so that mister could enter politics would come and kick him to the kurb!

    Sa kway more dah rah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. PRO
    February 9, 2026

    A Health Minister, with ZERO!!!!!!!!!! education in medicine…

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  3. Truth Offends
    February 9, 2026

    If these puppet ministers of Skerrit are serious about health care, why are they not talking care of those vagrants that are walking in Roseau everyday smelling poopoo and some can’t even keep their pants tied because they have too much poopoo on them. In fact they have these people patrolling the streets smelling right in the face of the tourists they trying boost up.
    While I am not against the elderly they paying their relatives and even spouses to take care of, what about those vagrants patrolling the streets of Roseau, sometimes naked like when they were born, smelling shi. like hell? Are they not humans? Or are they smelling too much to vote so as far as government is concerned they are useless?
    Man all you just using the elderly care for political gain and to hell with those that really need help but not in a position to vote

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  4. Left the Mourn
    February 8, 2026

    A very Big Stupes to Cassanni and his corrupt government . I would not be surprised to know that under his short tenure as health minister more Dominicans have been buried than any other minister in our history. Alas to Dominicans both young and small that are left to suffer and die under such currupt and cursed ministers of the Skerrit corrupt and cabal government

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    • Ibo France
      February 9, 2026

      It is very instructive to note that no minister of government seeks medical attention from the local health facilities for themselves nor their immediate family members. It’s Guadeloupe, Martinique or further afield. That’s the unvarnished truth.

      Let’s not forget when Roosevelt boast ed that he has medical insurance for himself and family. So they can travel for overseas medical treatment. What was shocking is that his zealous followers applauded him forbthis. Only in Dominica!

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      • Putin
        February 9, 2026

        “It is very instructive to note that no minister of government seeks medical attention from the local health facilities for themselves nor their immediate family members.” There you go again, as you do elsewhere, speaking from your you-know-what with impunity and with no face!

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    • Gary
      February 9, 2026

      Partisan political beliefs and the things it does to the mind, giving dominance over reason, lol. This is just another example
      of the metal atmosphere that has been sweeping in The Country, the dominance of partisan political beliefs over reason.

  5. Galileo
    February 8, 2026

    Why can’t Donald Peters just go home and relax? You all in this government are pathetic and getting people angrier and angrier. There are so many young Dominican professionals, but you all keep recycling the likes of Donald Peters and Benoit Bardouille. When you are not doing that, you put your low-IQ friends and family in top positions. You all will destroy this country. Don’t worry, St. Vincent is coming to Dominica.

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