26 The lasT Year of edmund ho
In tertiary education, the head of the Educational Research Centre still
doesn’t know what the new general law on the higher education will say
because no blueprint has been publically presented yet
Over the past few years the govern- present he believes is being applied as a Housing is another urgent issue
ment has said a lot about the civil serv- mere formality. He is also convinced that which needs to be dealt with: "We should
ice. However, there wasn't much about in the last four to five years of the casino- speed up construction and double the
this in his policy address. Perhaps this led boom, Macau's population did not number of public houses we build. We
is because the ambitious three-year old benefit as much as expected. have very strong demand and in the fu-
Pubic Administration Reform plan is still Development brought more jobs but ture this will grow,'' warns So.
ongoing on and is expected to end in the also an increased cost of living, which for Legal expert Bastos hopes the gov-
coming year. some low income families actually meant ernment will speed up the pace of public
Even so, Bastos points out some a worsening of their conditions. housing construction and perhaps even
matters that should be dealt with by try to add more projects.
Edmund ho. Home building
One of them is to make sure the ca- Unhealthy situation
reer path of new civil servants is clear. Another important policy that has
"In some public departments, there been demanded by several labour rep- On health, Macau's condition seems
are people doing the same job but benefit- resentatives is the establishment of a serious due to an illness related to money
ing from different conditions because of compulsory central security fund. The badly spent and the bad use of time.
the way they were recruited", he explains. government is already discussing the im- Dr Fernando Gomes has a diagnosis
Individual contracts, he adds, used to be plementation of the so called "two layer for the city's health system: "During the
an exception measure to recruit special- social security system", but for many, this last eight years it has been a disgrace.
ists from abroad, under more attractive is not enough because it is not a manda- No one planned ahead in time, no one
conditions, but nowadays they have been tory scheme. thought of the economic boom and the
"generalised in practice" with "a loss in "Without government and the private public health sector is bursting at the
those benefits". sector investment, I would say forget it, seams,'' Gomes, who is vice-president of
Bastos also proposes an improve- no retirement,'' So argues, insisting that the Macau Health Services Doctors As-
ment in the system for evaluating indi- a compulsory central security system be sociation, says, adding that with all the
vidual civil servants, a process which at created as soon as possible. money sloshing around in the economy,
december 2008
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