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The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) will meet to­day with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) to con­tin­ue dis­cus­sions on nurs­ing-re­lat­ed con­cerns and to es­tab­lish a struc­tured plan to ad­dress op­er­a­tional chal­lenges.

The NCRHA said its new Board of Di­rec­tors, which has been in of­fice for eight weeks, re­mains com­mit­ted to di­a­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tion aimed at im­prov­ing ser­vice de­liv­ery across all its fa­cil­i­ties.

To­day’s meet­ing fol­lows a pub­lic ex­change be­tween NCRHA chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh and TTR­NA pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art over claims of a se­vere nurs­ing short­age at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope. Stu­art re­cent­ly warned that un­der­staffing was af­fect­ing pa­tient care, prompt­ing Gopeesingh to ac­cuse him of cre­at­ing un­nec­es­sary pan­ic and to urge him to seek di­a­logue in­stead.